Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

A one-armed veteran of the Battle of Waterloo lies in a cemetery for one in the middle of a Chicago scrapyard.

A tribute to the incredible generosity the Choctaw Nation showed the Irish people during the Great Famine.

This extensive nuclear fallout shelter built from 42 school buses could house 500 people in its tunnels.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

A former top secret military tunnel is now stuffed with snow and open year-round to skiers.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Amazingly detailed marble cinerary urns that once held the cremains of Roman elite.

Descendants of this colonial Pennsylvania family still travel from far and wide to visit the 300-year-old home of their Quaker ancestors.

A small and quirky museum hidden inside a fence.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

The elevator hidden in a smokestack on Roosevelt's yacht now serves as a monument to the former president.