Places Rockette Wants to Go

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

Man-made geyser that rises to the exact height of the Gateway Arch.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.

Iron Age "bog person" preserved for over 2,300 years.

Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.

This remarkable cave was discovered after a shepherd watched bees enter and exit through a small fissure.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

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

A Netherlands hotel where you can sleep inside a wine barrel.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.