Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

This museum/fur store is devoted to educating guests on how awful opossums can be.

Asia's largest limestone cave is home to a world of plastic goblins and gold mining history.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

World's largest barrel containing an inn.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

Ruins of an aerial tramway that ran for only eight years.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

This Nazi-built amphitheater was constructed on a sacred mountain site used by various German cults.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

What was once the largest mine in North America has left behind a hollow hill filled with bright blue waters.

Anyone wanting to know what a dwarven mine sounds like need only visit the tunnels of this New Zealand artillery compound.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.