Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Peace Park and the Atomic Bomb Dome.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

The wreckage of a tragic plane crash is on display at this museum devoted to a famous Italian conspiracy.

A historic hotel that made a cameo in Hitchcock's classic film has no intention of letting guests forget its fame.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

This series of Armenian caves held the oldest brain, shoe, and winery in the world.

The timepiece that exonerated a labor radical accused of a parade bombing that killed ten people.

A small but industrious mining operation that allows visitors to touch precious gems while they are still in the rock.

An unexpected desert oasis in South America.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

An unusual stroll through gentlemen's erotica demonstrates that pornography is timeless.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

The World's First 24 Hour Coin-Operated Art Gallery!! Plastic, Styrofoam, and Elvis--If you can't get rid of it, you might as well worship it!!

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.