Places asdonkar Wants to Go

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

This magnificent museum claims to house the cranium of a disciple and the skull of a pope.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

One man has installed bathtubs into the Utah desert floor to harness the powers of a natural hot spring.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

Hungarian self-built castle.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

On rare days, this abandoned castle's gatekeepers open its doors, revealing the eye-popping splendor hidden inside.

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.