Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

This crumbling 14th century chapel became so unstable the roofing apparently collapsed during a wedding ceremony, narrowly missing the curate's head.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

A stone in Wolin, Poland, marks the possible location of a legendary Viking fortress.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

The discovery of this Neolithic settlement, which contained a Stone Age "cathedral," threw archaeologists for a loop.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

Constructed thousands of years ago, these stone circles offer incredible insight into the lives of the people who built them.

A sea cave with a waterfall and Viking past

This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

The venerated body of a 12th century saint is celebrated each year with the 'Race of the Candles.'