Places miodek Wants to Go

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

This collection of grinning ephemera has grown from basement to Brooklyn.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

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

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.