Places sweetcandee00 Wants to Go

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

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An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

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Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

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

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

Recognized the world over as the home of the McCallisters in the 1990 movie "Home Alone."

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.