Places madiking1822 Wants to Go

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

This abandoned prison castle has become an imposing gallery of graffiti art.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

An architect in Aspen used psychedelics as his muse while building this mushroom masterpiece.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.