Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

The world's first and only escalator for lazy bicycles and their daunted riders.

This former Nazi castle was built as a school to train what would have been the future of the Third Reich.

This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Now home to nothing but a weather station and a landing strip, a group of enslaved people were marooned on this tiny island for 15 years.

What was once an underground Nazi city is now Europe's largest bat reserve.

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.