Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

A tiny chapel and burial site lurk underground in Jajce.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A life-sized memorial to Harry L. Collins, the official corporate magician of Frito-Lay.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

Artist and musician Will Menter creates musical sculptures.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.

This old ruin once served as a post office, a train station, a restaurant, and a bridge to the Atomic Age.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

A slab of sandstone covered with mysterious 1,000-year-old rock carvings from a vanished North American culture.