Places indiekiddy Wants to Go

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

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

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.

These large speakers once broadcasted propaganda across the strait to the People’s Republic of China.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

A replica of a beloved, delicately-balanced granite boulder.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

The largest hewn stone in history.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.