Places marcwithasea Wants to Go

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

Explore 10 acres of environmental sculptures.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

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

After the Cuban Revolution, the famous rum company had to leave their swanky headquarters behind.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Over the centuries, this island paradise has done it all, from providing monks with ecclesiastical respite to sheltering an exiled Leon Trotsky.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

According to Hindu belief, this shallow island chain was created by a god with an army of monkeys.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Carvings in Turkey's Marble Road may have directed ancient Romans to a hidden brothel.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

A grand imperial capital left to fall into magnificent ruin.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.