Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

Visible at low tide, this rusting vessel is one of the last surviving examples of the X-Class "Midget" submarines.

These trenches were used to train the Scottish military for life on the frontlines of World War I.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

A museum dedicated to firefighting in a city that was crucial to the modern history of the profession.

This small sculpture honors a shuttered bookshop that was the site of a fiery act of protest.

These wooden pipes were crucial to providing water to Medieval Edinburgh.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Overlooking the burial ground is a tower designed to prevent thieves from snatching the recently deceased.

The secluded site of a 1943 plane crash and amazing rescue is only accessible by hiking through the woods.

Crystal clear, drinkable mountain spring water by the side of the road.

One of the last soy sauce-makers in Hong Kong has been in the artisanal condiment business since 1917.

The last used bookstore in Downtown San Francisco is one of the smallest bookstores just about anywhere.

A wealth of seafaring history displayed on the California coast.

Quite possibly the most isolated bus stop on Earth.

Kayak out to a floating restroom.

Dozens of whimsical bear statues "hibernate" here during the winter months.

A life-sized statue of a Tyrannosaurus rex made out of driftwood.

This colorful boulder serves as a canvas for political statements and artistic expression.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

A 19th-century cemetery device to ensure that the prematurely buried would be "saved by the bell."

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.