Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

The middle finger of modernity.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.