Places jonathanmicklos Wants to Go

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

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

An underwater city for the dead.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.