Places mikswockam Wants to Go

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

A "station to nowhere" marks the site of a Siberian subway project that never saw the light of day.

A desert journey through atomic history.

This rural Australian museum is dedicated to all things pinball.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A ruined farmhouse that inspired an (inaccurate) illustration for Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel “Wuthering Heights.”

A real-world location where a fictional murder took place

This is the location of the U.S. Radium Corporation where the “Radium Girls” worked, became sickened by radiation poisoning, with many dying horrible deaths.

Visit Europe's largest subterranean waterfall, carved by water from the glaciers of the towering peaks surrounding the valley.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

The system of air guns are fired off remotely to scare any trespassing avians.

Right next to departures—how convenient!

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

Visitors take revenge upon the statue of a traitor made to kneel at the tomb of his enemy.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.