Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Ripped apart by a bomb in 1993, the shell of Pablo Escobar's infamous vacation house still stands.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

This toxic spoil heap found a second life as a ski slope, popular film location, and wildlife haven.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

Bizarre and inspired combination store selling only two items: tires and bibles.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

The biggest pinball arcade in the world has over 600 pinball machines, and 300 arcade machines.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

A lesser-known part of the Kinsey Institute is this impressive collection of art, artifacts, and material culture related to human sexuality.