Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Row through this enchanted narrow chasm whose stones are said to resemble dragon scales.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

A small laundromat covered wall-to-ceiling with portrait drawings.

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

Nature has shaped this drainage tunnel into the digestive tract of a mighty beast.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

The zoological collection at the Hessisches Landesmuseum hosts some of the world's oldest habitat dioramas.

A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.

Hidden on top of a ferry terminal is a nifty statue of three dolphins, and one of Hong Kong's best sunset viewpoints.

This family-run roadside motel is an ode to the mid-century motor era.

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

An ancient Roman temple hidden in the basement of Römerpassage, a modern shopping mall.

The longest pedestrian tunnel in the world.

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.