Places Erin Johnson Wants to Go

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

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

Fowl, love and death in Vietnam.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

An unreal vintage shop that wears its dadaist influence on its zombie fish.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.