Places jeffmauree Wants to Go

This necropolis is home to eclectic funerary art and is the final resting place for much of the city's nobility.

This São Paulo home became a lifelong prison for a woman with a tragic childhood.

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

Even after multiple failed attempts to be hanged, Chaguinhas was still alive, making people believe it was a miracle.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

The craziest comic book shop in São Paulo.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

The pedestrian traffic signals in Brazil's teeming metropolis light up with clues to nearby landmarks.

This modernist building is the last remnant of an ambitious plan to restore a neighborhood.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

This steam locomotive served as both an interesting static display and unique playground equipment since 1959.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

This natural spring not only claims to heal the wounded but it has also been willed to God.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.