Places Sam Wants to Go

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The largest wax museum in the southern hemisphere features a grizzly chamber of horrors.

Rather than a run-of-the-mill franchise hotel, this lodging has been decked out in dinosaur decor.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.

Beautiful mostly-abandoned town only accessible by sea-worthy boat or plane.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

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

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.