Places SL Wants to Go

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Fine dining in the bizarre world of Lewis Carroll.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.