Places mkowal Wants to Go

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.