Places Jochen Duckeck Wants to Go

The labyrinthine storm tunnels beneath the city of Melbourne are ruled by a band of urban explorers.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

This interpretive path lets you get up close and personal with dinosaur bones.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!

A former chicken restaurant that doubled as a speakeasy is now a quirky home full of wonderfully strange traditions.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

Adobe ruins punctuate the beauty of an 800 foot canyon carved by the Canadian River.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

A watering hole where the options for seating include a bar, patio, or subterranean cave.

Only intact Ichthyosaur skeleton in the United States and an abandoned gold mine and ghost town all in one place!

A fake mine that was made using real mining techniques which is also used as a community center.

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

This cave was hidden for thousands of years, storing the worldly goods of ancient Native Americans.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

Every winter, the wind carves blocks of frozen water into beautiful abstract shapes inside this unusually curved tunnel.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

A county library in rural Ohio houses one of the finest mineral collections in the world.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.