Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

The rusting relics of Southampton's former luxurious flying boat industry.

This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.

This secluded walkway overlooks a magnificently wild London green space.

A world-class theater sits hidden in this remote town in West Iceland.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

A surprisingly large and sturdy ruin on the outskirts of a remote village.

This small collection in the back of a shop is the only oddities museum in Saskatoon.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

A gorgeous stone viaduct crosses over a bucolic valley.

This imposing 20th-century castle was abandoned before it was ever completed.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

Designed to serve primarily the Maharaja, this is an interesting variation on the traditional stepped well.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

One of Mother Nature’s geological gems, home to many prehistoric fossils.

The Thai Army has dug deep trenches along the Thai/Myanmar border to prevent drug smuggling.