Places lmbrown480 Wants to Go

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

The site of a concentration camp where inmates were made to take part in one of the largest counterfeiting operations in history is now hauntingly empty.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.