Places MikeInSanFrancisco Wants to Go

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.