Places sarahvjanet Wants to Go

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

A magnificent winding road through a steep valley, with deep natural caverns at the bottom

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

Despite being made of a seashell mortar, the crumbling remains of this historic Florida mill are still standing.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.

This haunted corpse of a drive-in is now a graffiti-covered ruin.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

Graffiti-covered ruins that were once part of a farm owned by a mental hospital.

This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.