Places immatthewpelton Wants to Go

Eight feet in diameter and more than 24 feet around.

The crumbling remnants of this 19th-century quarantine hospital hint at the touristy island's darker past.

The metal truss bridge served as the sole entry point to an "isolation island" for smallpox outbreaks throughout the 1870s and early 1940s.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

A quiet rock and botanical garden is the beautiful centerpiece of Fort Lewis College.

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Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

You haven’t properly toured a winery until you’ve slept in an actual wine barrel.

This tiny hotel perched atop a 50-foot tower really puts things into perspective.

This waterfall is one of the most spectacular natural features in the Scottish Lowlands.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.