Places sorcha1977 Wants to Go

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Stay in a room with a view... of the bottom of the ocean.

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.