Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

This scenic gorge is named after one of the most famous Bigfoot attacks in pseudohistory.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

Memorial dedicated to four citizens killed during a shooting spree prompted by a routine traffic stop.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

The site where one of the most famous poems of World War I was composed is preserved to honor the legacy of the work.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

A small concrete monument remembers a German cold case involving incest, farm tools, and psychics.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.