Places jameth15 Wants to Go

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

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

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

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

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

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

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.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.