Places mj48155 Wants to Go

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This 19th-century church is now a popular roller rink.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

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