Places Skankatron Wants to Go

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

An expansive and intricately restored mansion remains from over a century ago--and so do its ghosts.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

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

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

A 26-foot shark sculpture—a statement about bombs—set off a municipal battle royale.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.