Places lensofsteve Wants to Go

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

A harem-inspired Moorish fantasy design in a Victorian-era Welsh castle.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

Nazca pilgrimage site covering 370 acres is a popular stop for archeologists and looters.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

An obscure waterfall that looks like something out of a fantasy novel.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.