Places carlwh Wants to Go

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

For the deepest sleep of your life, head 1,375 feet underground in Wales.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

Built to transport German U-boats through the never-completed Masurian Canal, the locks near this Polish village are now home to a rope course.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

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

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

A group of college students hauled a desk up a mountain more than 40 years ago. The notebooks inside have become a makeshift time capsule.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

World's smallest skyscraper, the product of a remarkable con.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A nuclear bunker built to shelter the politicians and important people of Scotland in case of nuclear attack.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

This 19th-century island fort built to protect against an invasion by sea.

Two whaling vessels that were sunk by an anti-whaling organization in 1986 now sit on the shore of this beautiful fjord.