Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

This abandoned, windowless concrete block is one of the strangest buildings in Tulsa.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

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

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

This rare female version of the Muffler Man has its clothes removed each summer to signal the start of pool season.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

The only surviving piece of a submarine said to be the most decorated vessel in U.S. history.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A science teacher's dream.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.