Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

This turn of the century masterpiece has a mysterious goaty interloper.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

A ruined hotel with an unlucky history and an eerie present.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.