Places smiller18 Wants to Go

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

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

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

English antique dealers with a taste for the unusual.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

A genuine Little Shop of Horrors.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

"Purveyors of traditional sweets and vintage treats."

Three bridges straddle a stream, one stacked upon the other.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.