Places ShellybearG Wants to Go

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

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

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.