Places zydeko Wants to Go

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.

This small canyon park was once the main street of Silver City—until a flood washed it away.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The nearly 120-year-old piece of pork wears a brass collar and was once a man's "pet ham."

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

The Guinness Record holder as the "tallest cinema in the world" is a building with screens in almost every one of its 12 floors

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

The abandoned medieval theme park was meant to be the "Disneyland of the Philippines."

This medieval castle was painted pink as part of a now-abandoned children's theme park.

An abandoned amusement park hints at the twisted history of the Newfoundland Railway.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

Legend says these colorful, invasive residents are the descendants of birds released by Jimi Hendrix.