Places Sporadicus Wants to Go

Locals say the stone that marks the spot where the gallows once stood can lead you astray.

Legend says this rock was once a chopping block for public executions.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

At this Arctic outpost, get to know members of the indigenous Sámi community and meet their herds.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

An abandoned 18th century manse looks like something out of an Indiana Jones movie.

The oldest of the three remaining bridges in England with buildings on top of them.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

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

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

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

London's largest outsider art museum.