Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

An underwater city for the dead.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.