Places Amy Dupcak Wants to Go

This quaint Spanish village agreed to be painted blue as a marketing stunt but found that they preferred it that way.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

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

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

This gem-encrusted temple is said to contain some of the Buddha's hair which can make the deaf hear and the blind see.

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

On the small Thai island of Ko Mak, there is a forgotten garden of erotic statuary.

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