Places staceygardner84 Wants to Go

A house turned museum is the real-life "home" of the fictional main character of The Wizard of Oz.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

Self-built house and sculpture park where the creator can still be seen in a glass coffin.

Undone by Prohibition, this abandoned brewery-turned-flour mill is now ready for its third act.

An adorably sweet display of sculpted Precious Moments figurines.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.

The maximum security facility was once thought to have "the bloodiest 47 acres in America."

A mysterious light of unknown origin on the backroads of Missouri.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

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An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.