Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

The tombstone of the founder of the lost town of Ogletown is now stuck inside a traffic median.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

The original vault that held the president's remains still stands, empty, not far from where he was finally buried.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

The names Lúthien and Beren can be found inscribed on the shared grave of the famous writer and his beloved wife and muse.

The centuries-old obelisk may have inspired J. R. R. Tolkien.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.