Places Xavier Wants to Go

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

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

Stalactites and stalagmites in a beautifully lit cave.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

14th century Norse artifacts in Northwestern Minnesota could have proved a Viking landing before Columbus.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

MIT students continue the legacy of beloved professor "Doc" Edgerton through learning by doing.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!