Places The Albatross Wants to Go

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

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

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

Lie in a hammock where George Washington stood.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The oldest volcanology research center in the world.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.