Places Steve 55 Wants to Go

On the grounds of the famous Qutab Minar lies another unfinished tower meant to be twice as tall.

A stunning little chapel built on a rock in the Mediterranean Sea on the Greek island of Leros.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

This cemetery contains a small fraction of the hundreds of Sierra Leoneans who died in the world wars.

This "social palace" housing complex created a relatively stable and self-contained worker's society... for a time.

Now a city park, this site started as a stage stop, then was a working ranch, and finally became a dude ranch that specialized in letting wannabe divorcees establish Nevada residency.

A large visitor's complex and place of remembrance on the outskirts of the DMZ.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

This massive piece of aviation history calls this residential neighborhood home.

This abandoned mansion has a window for every day of the year, and is a temple for ghost hunters.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

This classic photo booth was saved from destruction by the local community.

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Wars fought and wars won are remembered by these abandoned bunker ruins.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

This pair of statues commemorates a once-widespread carnival tradition of blowing on each other’s butts with bellows.

The stunningly blue waters of these beautiful caves also have a violent past.

The home and studio of one of Japan's most avant-garde artists is now a museum showcasing his surreal works.

Created as a "model concentration camp" to hide Nazi atrocities from the international community, this former camp-ghetto now holds a museum and memorial honoring the lives lost within.