Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

Drive past the giant fruit sculptures and up to the window for a menu of fruity treats.

The abandoned remains of this once-thriving hotel looms over the city, awaiting an uncertain future.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

The fences outside some of South London's estates are made from recycled World War II stretchers.

A traditional American farmhouse plopped in the middle of a Piccadilly courtyard.

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

These ruins of Francis Bacon's once-magnificent manor are hidden in the English countryside.

This steel sculpture made from a recycled crane towers above a former shipyard.

This edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A giant roundabout made up of six smaller roundabouts can befuddle the uninitiated.

The oldest surviving glass furnace cone in Western Europe.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

This Norman castle has been the scene of assassination plots, religious persecution, and Nazi conspiracies throughout its long history.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

Thanks to a bit of wordplay, seven auspicious stone cats guard this ancient canalside street.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This small fort played a huge role defending Puerto Rico’s capital city.

This foreboding medieval castle was twice besieged by barons rebelling against the English king.