Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

Geothermal waterfalls in Tuscany.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The gloomy ruins that inspired Bram Stoker to bring Dracula to life.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.