Places sarahvjanet Wants to Go

An underwater city for the dead.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A cave's rare beauty held a cavernous secret hidden underground.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A tree that grows parallel to the ground was declared Brooklyn's "crowning curio" by the poet who saved it.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.