Places Radicalbats Wants to Go

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

A cliff-hanging restaurant.

A mad mystery man who led Canadian mounties on a 150-mile wilderness chase is still buried with his secrets intact.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

A playground built by the kids that is a child's wonderland, and a helicopter parent's nightmare.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.