Places derweze Wants to Go

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

The world's largest pineapple building honors Bathurst's favorite fruit.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A Manhattan courthouse hides a small but scathing memorial to Holocaust injustice.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

The only sea in the world that has no land boundary.

Just like the real 36th president of the United States, animatronic LBJ amuses visitors with jokes and stories.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.