Places SilverGirl Wants to Go

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

At just six feet two inches deep, it is said by Guiness and Ripley to be the world’s narrowest freestanding office building.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The shattered remnants of a meteor that struck Santa Fe more than a billion years ago.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

What appears to be a historic cabin nestled within Valles Caldera National Preserve is actually part of an abandoned movie set.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

A burial ground restored by a determined Boy Scout, where fragments of America’s early history rest beneath weathered stones.

The ruins of this once-grand mansion are linked to one of the country’s most popular clothing brands.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

America’s first living history museum of camping — a decade-by-decade museum of vintage campers, luxury tents, and Northwoods vacation history that guests can actually sleep in.

A remote island marking the entrance to Death’s Door, surrounded by the bones of ships who failed to heed her warnings.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?