Places Samir S. Patel Wants to Go

This isolated airport in the middle of the Everglades sees more alligators than planes.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.

Where Aleister Crowley taught magick in "La Chambre Des Cauchemars," his "Chamber of Nightmares."

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

A bizarre statue of a Buddhist goddess made from 20,000 insects.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

A narrow opening between the mountains of the Amalfi Coast creates a scenic hidden beach.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

At this research institute, the chile is king.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

Internet rumors, often involving Icelandic singer Björk, have abounded regarding this isolated outcrop of rock.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.