Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

Ruins of the laboratory where a mysterious doctor invented an embalming fluid and stored his mummies.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Officially named the "Loneliest Road in America," this barren stretch of Nevada road offers almost nothing but sky and open fields.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

An odd, ancient window that may have once been part of a brutal prison is embedded in the side of New York's Police Plaza.

Deep under Manhattan is the largest construction project in city history. So far, the project has taken the lives of 23 workers, or "a man a mile."

Built from oil field parts and resembling a teepee, this abandoned mid-century church is hoping for a comeback.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

Church built on the site where the last tsar of Russia and his family were killed.

Eighteen mummies have stood guard behind the altar of this tiny church since 1833.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

The last slot car racing arcade in Brooklyn is keeping the dream of speedy little autos alive.

The ruins of a creative scholar's fantastical unfinished sanctuary act as his massive gravestone.

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

Hidden beneath a washing machine in a fake kibbutz, this secret bullet factory has been preserved as a museum.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

The forgotten mummies of Dakhla oasis.

Mennes invented the tags we all place annually upon our license plates, and his story is told frankly and in full upon his headstone.