Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

Deep scars on the earth left by the Ice Age.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

The largest natural travertine bridge in the world is nestled in a small canyon in central Arizona.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.

Manhattan's lighthouse, erected at the insistence of the unsinkable Molly Brown.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

See six states from the newly restored 100-year-old historic roadside attraction.

A turn-of-the-century architectural marvel built on healing mineral springs and salt licks.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

The site of the famous Nazi book burning campaign of 1933 remembers its "Night of Shame".

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.