Places bradh Wants to Go

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.