Places acbehnke Wants to Go

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

A bizarre form of natural mummification was discovered in the church of this Frisian village.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Rare collectibles from automated musical instruments to 250 unique automobiles.

A former imperial sea-fortress and Soviet prison.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

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

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Museum dedicated to the struggles of the disabled.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.