Places Nick Wants to Go

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Turntable anonymously received orphans, alms, and groceries.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Gothic tower where Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the poem "The Sleeping Beauty."

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

An avant-garde artist is survived by his seaside garden.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

The remnants of a strange stilted building on rails can still be seen at low tide.

Half-drowned wooden stumps and stone blocks are all that remain of a Victorian landing that was destroyed by storms.

Decrepit Victorian public lift is a white-knuckle ride.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.