Places Eric Christensen Wants to Go

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

A labyrinthine network of chambers with a storied past hides below Edinburgh's South Bridge.

Commemoration of a sea voyage gone mysteriously wrong.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.