Places Alexander J. Zawacki Wants to Go

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

Aged nearly 1,700 years, the world's oldest bottle of wine is probably still drinkable.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

Thanks to a clever legal loophole, this mountainside wine shop sells a hybrid cuvée that's been outlawed for nearly a century.

The 2,000-year-old beam is tucked within the pedestrian entrance to the old London Bridge.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.