Places Erin Johnson Wants to Go

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Machinery left over from California's once thriving mercury industry now attracts artists and explorers.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The site of the house Jack Parsons made famous both in life and death.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

An underwater city for the dead.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.