Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

This muddy wooded valley and the ancient structures it hides are said to be the favored haunt of the legendary Friar Tuck.

Half-hidden by grassy slopes, this striking Spanish colonial fort is now a museum of underwater archaeology.

One of the oldest student jails in Germany.

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

The world's only pure blue lizard lives exclusively on this secluded tropical island.

Now abandoned, this East Austin school for the disabled began as the "State Colony for the Feeble-minded."

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

Every Sunday, this Thai temple in Berkeley serves a backyard brunch.

This charming, narrow-gauge railway in the Thames Estuary is sometimes referred to as the "Train to Nowhere."

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.

These abandoned salt flats are now a haven for wildlife.

The ruins of a 15th-century church once home to priests who prayed for a single family's salvation.

A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.

A cooled lava flow from the Haleakalā volcano formed these surreal-looking columnar basalt structures.

This Wyoming town is fascinated by a particular mythical creature.

The world's largest moose statue towers above the highway between Oslo and Trondheim.

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

A statue in the Texas town that proudly calls itself the killer bee capital of the world.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

This trail leads to a mine that was used as a sanctuary during the Great Fire of 1910.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

A unique memorial to the bunnies who died because of Australia's historic Rabbit Proof Fence.