Places cpmaverick Wants to Go

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

The solitary cairn marks a mysterious death that's still controversial more than two decades later.

It's home to the antenna that received the first images of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This retro underwater observation tower would make the perfect lair for a sea-loving villain.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

This historic textile city was abandoned after being ravaged by fire.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

The ruins of this old church are slowing sinking into the sand.

A massive fallen water tank bombed by the Tamil Tigers in the final stages of the long Sri Lankan Civil War.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

This cemetery has graves dating back to the 17th century, including the city's oldest carved tombstone and an ominous cryptogram.