Places amosner Wants to Go

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Each year, one talented artist puts on a show sculpting twelve butter-based busts of dairy princesses.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

Eurasia's most difficult place to hang out, and farthest point from sea access.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.