Places eschie Wants to Go

A fire lookout atop a glacial pinnacle is reached by climbing three vertiginous flights of stairs.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Despite what a Thai tourism board might want you to think, this white-sand beach is in fact located on a Scottish island.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

This monument gives insight into how lost children were found in Edo-period Tokyo.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

If it hadn't been caught in time, a flaw in the design of this Manhattan skyscraper could have led to its collapse.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A fantastic example of Victorian railway engineering with two unusual decorative features.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

When he found his hometown was no more, Lowell Davis decided to recreate a "new" ghost town from scratch.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

These former Cold War launch sites have been preserved for tourists to see where the button might have been pushed.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

This trail follows unique stone railroad tracks and a historic waterway to the south coast of Devon.