Places michellek Wants to Go

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

An unfortunate geological resemblance to Satan has labeled this Pasadena gorge as a passage to the underworld.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.