Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

Decommissioned NYC subway cars are dumped into the ocean to create this underwater wildlife habitat.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

A salty cave excavated by elephants and the location of a deadly disease vector.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

The taxidermied remains of the "last wild grizzly bear in California" and of the symbol of the state of California.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

A small village in India bears witness to the end of birds' lives every September.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

Knitting isn't just for grandmothers and counterculture isn't just for punks.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

The Australian lorikeets that like to tie one on in an annual drinking binge.

Home of the world's largest crocodile.

Three legendary, living albino buffalo roaming their pastures for all to see.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."