Places CaitlinSetnicar Wants to Go

A gorgeous, nostalgic café housed in a lofty old warehouse, lit only by petroleum lamps.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

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

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

Warsaw's fantastically preserved gasworks...almost.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

Once a major stop on the Hejaz Railway, this desert station (complete with steam locomotive) has been abandoned for decades.

This communist behemoth is the heaviest building in the world and a legacy of a brutal regime.

A giant portrait of an ancient king looms over the river.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.