Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put.

This controversial depiction of the "Founder of California" looks as though it was sculpted from mashed potatoes.

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

One man single-handedly dug a road right through a mountain after his wife died due to its interference.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

The abandoned remains of this Victorian brewery hide crumbling bowling alleys and rusting industrial gear.

The floorboard scrawling of a tragic madman is on public display outside a Paris hospital, much to the dismay of its opponents.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

This disused Cold War bunker has been restored to all of its early 60s glory.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.

A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.