Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

The man who was president for only one day and spent most of it asleep.

The Laureates here get something even more coveted than a Nobel Prize: free parking for life.

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

"...I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?"

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

On the windswept Dakota plains there is a memorial to circus workers who were struck down by lightning.

This enormous sports car themed amusement park is home to the world’s fastest roller coaster.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

A giant open-air sculpture made of over 200 full-sized boats.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A little known Colombian theme park of giant curiosities.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Over 100 years ago this pyramidal holding cell was reserved for rowdy drunks but now only offers five minute sentences.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.