Places Daniel Sobo Wants to Go

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

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

This archaeological site features an early version of today’s refrigerators.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Start your day with a Catalan-style “fork breakfast”—complete with booze—at this rustic restaurant.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

Western New York's largest independent bookstore doubles as a historical repository of all things Niagara Falls.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

The ballpark in "Pigtown" where the Brooklyn Dodgers made their name was replaced with a huge apartment complex.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.