Sacramento, California
Patty Reed's Doll
A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Sacramento, California
A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.
Anchorage, Alaska
Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.
New Haven, Connecticut
137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.
Kingsand, England
Half-eaten food on display at an English café.
Newton Abbot, England
This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.
Austin, Pennsylvania
When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.
Fraser Island, Australia
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
Los Angeles, California
Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.
Hull, Massachusetts
A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.
Panamint, California
The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.
Near Lake Arrowhead, California
Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Linthicum Heights, Maryland
Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.
Ellicott City, Maryland
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
Porto-Vecchio, France
A resort destroyed by a mysterious bombing offers visitors only its remains and the riddle behind it's demise.
Bonifacio, France
Once the hottest nightclub in France, Amnesia now lies in ruins after a 2000 bombing.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Bethesda, Maryland
Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.
Jefferson City, Missouri
Destroyed by flood waters, prison now serves as a training ground for armed forces.
Mill Valley, California
Law-protected wreckage serves as a peculiar memorial for an almost forgotten World War II tragedy.
Bangkok, Thailand
On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
New Mexico
Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.