Places Rogier Wants to Go

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

The cafe that acts as the social hub for the small volcanic island of HMS Bounty fame.

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

A former hen house turned curiosity cabinet displays one man's lifelong fascination with cannibalism.

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

The largest collection of hair jewelry in Europe reminds you how creepy 19th-century love was.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

This Denmark theme park is part family attraction, part experimental archaeology project.

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