Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

A mysterious Castle is now home to a rare breed of goat.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

A gothic-styled structure that has been the location for several movies.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

A facility built in 1992 for an underground nuclear test remains in place today.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

This lonesome Monterey cypress has survived centuries of wind, salt, and at least one attempt at arson.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

Nature (and graffiti) reclaim this old waterworks that has been surrounded by a bike path and network of walking trails.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

A well-preserved sheepherding camp now lies in the heart of the Granite Chief Wilderness, in the high Sierra Nevada.

One of the "twins" in these falls on the Snake River was sacrificed for hydropower generation in the 1930s.

The only natural cave bath in all of Europe.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

A Victorian school for poverty stricken waifs has been preserved as a museum to their donated education.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.

A museum that chronicles the interesting and often dark history of the London docklands, once one of the major trading ports of the world.

Soon after its unveiling, this giant inverted globe sparked controversy and was vandalized.

These four islands right offshore have waterfalls, colorful lights, fancy buildings, and a secret purpose.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.