Places badgersofdoom Wants to Go

This ruined 15th-century hermitage is steeped in myth and mystery.

People have been placing babies on these lilies for photoshoots since the Victorian era.

By public opinion, this is Canada's knottiest tree.

These mysterious mazes carved on the rock may be up to 4,000 years old.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

Saved by a logger, this Douglas fir is one of the last great old-growth trees in Canada.

An ancient impact crater on the outskirts of Pretoria.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

A dramatic art installation features a BMW flying out of a building in Rotterdam.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

These semi-natural waterfalls hint at the park's Victorian-era industrial past.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

In this roadside "community for the small," abandoned toys gain new lives.

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

For over 20 years, Lil Toot has delighted guests with narrated boat rides between Stearns Wharf and Santa Barbara Harbor, becoming a beloved local legend and top-rated experience for visitors.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.