Places karenwanpharmd Wants to Go

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

The wild west is still alive and well at this authentic mining town watering hole.

There's nothing creepier than a cemetery next to a clown motel.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

Are they the remains of a fallen hotel, or the final stronghold for escaped Nazis?

The island houses the ruins of a secret nuclear fusion lab that once employed high-profile Nazi scientists

This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.

This glacier interpretation center houses the world’s only bar made completely from glacial ice.

A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.

This magnificent abandoned hotel has long been haunted by its Nazi past.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

Mineral springs believed to hold therapeutic properties draw in visitors from all over.

A beautiful young girl said to have been buried alive in her coffin…

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

A neo-Gothic castle in the Argentinian countryside.

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.