Places hapichapi Wants to Go

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Formerly a brutal Nazi colony, this Chilean village was remade as a (controversial) German-themed tourist trap.

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Original cabaret handbills, posters, and feline artwork are a purrfect highlight of the Museum of Montmartre.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

A sprawling ancient Jewish cemetery with over 30 rock-hewn burial caves.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.