Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Possibly the world's largest hourglass only needs to be reset every New Year's Eve.

Natural sonic phenomenon comes with a grisly legend of murder and blood.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

Bizarre dirt trail winds a narrow path above the tree line.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

A natural arch carved by a river gave its name to the so-called "Cave of Forgotten Dreams."

The oldest living organism in New York City. Maybe.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

Somewhere there is a giant who can no longer poop, but now travelers can stay inside his anus.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

South Korea's only sex-themed park.