Places drangob Wants to Go

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

New York's oldest magic store.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A student driver's nightmare.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

Unusual British home built to disguise a water tower.

The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

This WWII aircraft museum presents its wrecks like taxidermy, complete with recreations of the crash sites.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Forgotten jail cells beneath this Scottish town hall are now used for delightfully artful storage.

This memorial to the thousands of Indian dead during WWI was callously used for target practice during WWII.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.