Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

All of Chicago's wood-paved streets are long gone but two alleys remain.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.