Places jbuchli Wants to Go

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Resonant stone, that has been played since prehistoric times.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This singular broken monument, now housed in a museum, was the cause of a worldwide "Mayan Doomsday" phenomenon.

Fascinating town where normal life interfaces with the occult.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

This Danish art forest places loud works of contemporary art among the pensive silence of nature.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

The middle finger of modernity.

Underneath the city that invented pilsners are a series of historic tunnels that have been storing beer for centuries.

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

This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.

The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.

This Dresden church was purposely rebuilt Protestant after being demolished in World War II.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

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

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

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