Places cmstoelb Wants to Go

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

A fantastical bed and breakfast with magically unique rooms.

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

Go underground to find a collection representing the history of this village in the heart of La Mancha.

Ornate lobby of a police station is decorated with colorful murals by Augusto Giacometti.

This roadside installation gives travelers a chance to stretch their legs. Don't worry—it doesn’t bite!

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

The remains of a religious colony, its amusement park, zoo, and baseball empire.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

The location of the last stand of Charles Manson's doomsday cult.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

This historical marker is all that remains of Octagon City, Kansas, a failed vegetarian utopia.

Post office plaque commemorates local resistance to a cult invasion.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.