Places jonathanmicklos Wants to Go

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

The middle finger of modernity.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."