Places Madeleine Wants to Go

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

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

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This serene oasis in an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood holds some of Gandhi's ashes and got Elvis into Eastern Philosophy.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

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

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

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

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

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).