Places wanntonsoup Wants to Go

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

The U.S. Army's giant warehouse of war art includes Hitler’s watercolors and Norman Rockwell oil paintings.

The last of nine massive kilns that produced many of the red bricks for buildings in Washington, D.C. and northern Virginia in the early 20th century.

A journey through a curious collection of oddities and wonder.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

This church is known as "The Home Church of George Washington and George Mason."

Standing for over 200 years, the abandoned home of a Revolutionary War hero and later a succession of prison superintendents.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.