Places Ryan Haupt Wants to Go

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

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

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.