Places Oubliette Wants to Go

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.