Places sorcha1977 Wants to Go

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Home to the infamous "Typhoid Mary" and the worst loss of life in New York's history prior to September 11, 2001.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.