Places KingSmithy Wants to Go

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.