Places stephsrs Wants to Go

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

New York's oldest magic store.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

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

A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.

Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.

This "castle" is actually a limestone and quartz formation hidden along a trail.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

This church built atop a gas station promises to "equip you for the next stage in your life’s journey."

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.