Places juche Wants to Go

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Glass and concrete building designed by Albert Kahn.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

Small, privately owned island divided between Michigan and Ohio with abandoned vacation homes and a derelict lighthouse.

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.