Places tealeaves Wants to Go

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

Italian horror legend Dario Argento’s own shop hides a sinister museum-dungeon in the basement.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

A Bohemian "anti-hotel" offers off-kilter stays in Sri Lanka.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

A long and winding trail through an ancient forest of imaginative sculptures hidden behind a garden center.

Pickles belong on pizza and this freewheeling outpost proves it.

A ghostly mansion in the middle of downtown Tunis.

The romantic botanic tunnel feels like a well-kept secret.

The U.K.'s first underground railway line is now a lively thoroughfare for runners and cyclists.

This former train tunnel is filled with lines from a poem crafted by Robert Louis Stevenson.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

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

With no menu and no sign, this 130-year-old taverna doles out affordable home cooking.

A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Dine on superb local staples in a converted historic church.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.