Places ephemeral epiphany Wants to Go

Mysterious glowing orbs float through the desert night.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

The world's only known button museum.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.