Places Mike Portanova Wants to Go

A little-known, but surprisingly large waterfall on the Little Truckee River in the northern Sierra Nevada.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

Calidum et Deliciose Succosum!

The oldest hotel in Nevada.

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

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

In Chapultepec Park there is a pavilion gifted to Mexico from South Korea to honor the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

This uniquely designed bridge served as the city gate for Comacchio.

Frozen in Norway, vended in Singapore.

An urban laboratory.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.