Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.

A 6th-century stone lies at the site of the mythical battle waged between King Arthur and his nemesis Mordred.

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

It is said the legendary wizard once lived in this sea cave beneath Tintagel Castle.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.