Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

A modern day curiosity cabinet.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

The Pentagon sits on a former island that was in Virginia at low tide and D.C. at high tide.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.