Places johncyrilokeefe Wants to Go

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

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

A desert in southeast Asia, complete with a beautiful lake covered in lotus flowers.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Built in 1931, this small passageway is believed to be the first modern skyway.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

The oldest apple tree in the Pacific Northwest.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

This punny mirror of another Wisconsin attraction is exactly what it sounds like.

This family driveway also serves as the highest point in Illinois.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

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

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.

One Austrian's singular yard is now preserved as a folk art garden of concrete wonders.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

A bronze plaque marks the site of the only show the "King of the Soul Singers" ever missed.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.