Places Exploring With Derek Wants to Go

A rapidly disappearing authentic bit of the old south.

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

This sacred cave temple is home to thousands of bats and according to legend, a giant snake king.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

Kyiv's answer to Muscle Beach is a Soviet-era gym made from scrap metal.

One of the world’s best microminiaturist, Nicolaï Siadristy displays his lifetime of tiny creations in this museum.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

Thousands of bats stream out of caves every night on the edge on Thailand's second largest park.

A collection of venomous snakes and reptiles for the whole family to enjoy.

These mythological giants take time out of their busy day guarding a Victorian market to let you know what time it is.

A self-funded cemetery with a long list of inhabitants.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

Australia's largest traditional hedge maze features a Great Gnome Hunt.

Dine aboard the historic Ghan train while retracing early explorers' journey through the Outback.

There's a lot of horsing around on this lonely stretch of Australian highway.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

A boardwalk winds through this sliver of coastal nature hidden within Sydney.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.