Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

These muddy eruptions are less deadly than actual volcanoes but also more holy.

Are these prehistoric metal pipes evidence of alien plumbers? Nope, but they are amazing nonetheless.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

The coldest city in the world.

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

A historic hotel on the edge of the Australian outback.

Geodesic dome luxury retreat in the Scottish Highlands.

This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

Lonely industrial sculptures in South Australia created by a mechanic turned artist.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

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

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

The "world's biggest dinosaur" once housed a creationist museum in its abdomen.

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

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.