Places semken Wants to Go

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

A remote field of nearly pristine sand dunes in the heart of the Mojave Desert.

An abandoned generator and motor factory has become a multi-use industrial campus.

It's said this geological anomaly was caused when the Devil took a bite out of the Irish mountainside.

Ado Awaye Mountain and the unique lake that sits near its peak are shrouded in ancient legends.

A seaside town with no sea in sight.

A museum built around a bus-sized fossil on the side of the highway.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

A 10,000-square-foot museum of operating model trains.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

These gnarly desert trees produce the prized aromatic resin traded along the ancient incense trail.

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

An empty mine that some believe will suddenly be filled with fortune and treasures at the end of the world.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An antiquated aquarium housed in a converted government anti-nuclear bunker.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.