Places writerchick2 Wants to Go

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This memorial honors five journalists who were killed in a mass shooting in 2018, and affirms the importance of the first amendment.

One of only two sites in the United States containing the remains of Buddha.

The oldest military monument in the United States.

The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.

A historic cemetery with unique artwork, a Civil War fort, and also happens to be the site of the Battle of Bladensburg.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

This humble resting place belongs to one of history's most celebrated restaurateurs.

The final resting place of the man who played the Invisible Man.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A bridge commemorating the actor's legacy and his Terryville roots.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Visit the secret grave of a legendary privateer who faked his own death.

This stone statue inspired Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

The humble gravesite of the man who failed to cash in on his Pepsi-cola goldmine.

The wooden house where the jazz great learned to play the piano.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

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

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The location where the American Revolution ended.