Places irisenjoyed Wants to Go

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.