Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

The remains of three Luftwaffe launch pads designed for manned anti-aircraft missiles.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

A pyramid in Central Europe of unknown origin.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

The largest collection of Indigenous Australian artifacts in the world, and the rare museum where wood-and-glass cabinets have trumped interactive exhibits.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

A mud volcano in Indonesia spews out 50,000 cubic meters of mud every day.

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

A bizarre collection of gifts to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il from the despots of the world.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

Take black faced bears with giant clubs, white faced barbers wielding axes, hunters armed with shotguns, and mix in a lot of drinking.

A unusual sanctuary for abused and exotic animals in South Jersey.

19th century tunnels burrowed under Liverpool.

The underground sanctuary of a mysterious ancient cult.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.