Places simonele Wants to Go

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The site of murders and Satanic cult gatherings.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

Most famous work of one of Frank Lloyd Wright's sons.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.