Places strictmachine86 Wants to Go

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

One of the most accessible undersea plane wrecks in the world.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

Shocking dioramas of human torture, meant to promote human rights awareness.

The bullet-riddled wall from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, bloodstains enhanced for your viewing pleasure.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

An old town theater converted into a celebration of the hobo legacy.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

A writer's tiny retreat built from salvaged shipwreck timbers.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

Obscene versions of this artist's work are the most popular.

This grave resides at the crossroad of three parishes.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

A 550-square-meter micro-nation off the coast of Britain.

Lovers proclaim their unbreakable bond by leaving their names on locks fastened onto the Shoreditch fence in East London.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.