Places michaelroelli Wants to Go

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

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

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.