Places athanasius Wants to Go

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

The world's shortest escalator doesn't seem to have any reason to exist other than to hold a world record.

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Terrapins of all colors and shapes are quick to bring fascination (and possibly long life) at this museum.

A Singapore shrine to an unnamed German girl who has become a local deity.

30 years worth of pressed-tin, bakalite, and characters both loved and forgotten.