Places brinkmonkey Wants to Go

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

The commemorative stone column conceals a secret laboratory.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This long-distance walking route follows the Prime Meridian line as it passes through England.

A serene desert oasis speckled with ancient artifacts.

These quintessentially English stepping stones were built for Victorian tourists.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

There are two legends behind the origin of this unusually tall sanitary structure.

The beehive-like buildings of this abandoned resort reside near the border of Mauritania and Senegal.

These ruins have been linked to a sherbet factory that exploded, but the story may be entirely fictional.

A sprawling network of century-old subterranean catacombs lies beneath a nondescript suburban home.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

Underground monastery and fortress.

This 13th-century monastery chiseled into the side of a mountain is equipped with a bridge that can be lifted to protect against raids.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This hermitage spanning an Italian river gorge draws pilgrims hoping to heal ailments like arthritis and migraines.

A charming, homemade vending machine dispenses burgers and sandwiches at this hole-in-the-wall bakery.

In the early Roman Empire, people deemed traitors and criminals were tossed to their deaths from this rock.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.