Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Experience a quartz crystal sound bath inside a storied, all-wood sound-chamber.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.