Places MikeInSanFrancisco Wants to Go

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

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

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

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

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

Lifelike statue of the Chinese philosopher in the bathtub.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Leave the wardrobes and sweets to British schoolchildren, Shanghai's got a Coke machine that leads to booze.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

A mysterious painting of the self-declared Emperor of the United States watches over a local hof-brau.

A walk down memory lane in the heart of one of San Francisco's most notorious neighborhoods.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.