Places MagnumPI Wants to Go

Wonderland replication in progress by one persistent man.

Abandoned 18th century weapons factory in the Aezkoa Valley.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

A collection of art from Bulgaria's time as a communist state.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

A gigantic statue of a Russian soldier watches over the ancient city of Plovdiv, a prominent reminder of the Soviet period in Bulgaria.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

A massive base for the Nazis' most formidable weapon in the Atlantic.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

The laboratory where the Soviet secret police invented exotic poisons used to kill dissidents in hideous and (mostly) untraceable ways.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

An abandoned Nazi explosives plant founded by the inventor of dynamite is now an underground museum.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

An ornate century-old elevator still connects the two halves of Bad Schandau.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

This haunting ghost ship stands beached in the waters off the coast of the Falkland Islands.