Places nejuum Wants to Go

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

The final resting place of the great escape artist, where some still gather to wait for his escape from death.

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

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

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

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Tucked in a nondescript downtown Brooklyn mall is a bar containing a remarkable turn of the century anatomical wax collection last seen in 1920s Berlin.