Places Nicole Lee Wants to Go

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

"The country that ate itself."

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

The shipyards along the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital are a flurry dangerous boat breaking and rebuilding.

This historic textile city was abandoned after being ravaged by fire.

Where giant ships go to die.

The island that holds the world-record for largest human massacre caused by animals.

The final resting place of one of Chicago’s most iconic drill rappers.

The Lincoln Memorial has inspired many, even though a word on the inscription appears to be spelled incorrectly.

Advice-columnist's bell tower, paid for with pennies.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.

Nothing to see here.

An eerie natural formation that looks right back at you.

One of the last remaining French Colonial style churches, this centuries-old building was constructed using upright logs and no nails.

Romance fans worldwide make the pilgrimage to this group of historic covered bridges in rural Iowa.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

This mangled and twisted wreckage left by the side of a Mexican road was no accident, but a planned crash in the name of science and safety.

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

The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.