Places suddenrougher0u Wants to Go

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.

Bizarre Cavern.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.