Places lilbird Wants to Go

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

Social outcasts and cannibalism in Stalin's Soviet Union.

Nestled in the jungles of Vanuatu are the remains of what was once a cannibal oven.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

This ethereal, rainforest-like gorge is home to waterfalls, quaint bridges, and fairy folk.

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

The mystery of this small, brick pond eluded its possibly only investigator until his death.

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

A 18th century graveyard and its astonishing cortege of macabre iconography.

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

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

A glacial pothole was once a hideout for a notorious Scottish outlaw.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.