Places mdesilva Wants to Go

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

In a time before lifeguards, this house was a sanctuary for the shipwrecked.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

The Argonaute submarine was the French navy's pride and joy in the 1950's.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

This bridge was constructed from the rubble of the infamous Bastille.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.