Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Giant quails play and greet visitors at a suburban park.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

While walking down Mazatlan's historic boardwalk, visitors are surprised to find their ocean view interrupted by a gateway to hell.

The third tallest plunge fall in Oregon, worth visiting year-round.

Thousands of foxes are said to gather and parade across the neighborhood of Ōji on New Year’s Eve.

The only Kurdish restaurant in Japan invites you to learn and feast.

Just outside Chicago, one of the few traditional Mongolian restaurants in the U.S. serves a misunderstood cuisine.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Gambling, boozing, and yodeling animals cover the walls of this dive bar cum natural history museum.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

A treasure trove of material within the University of Pittsburgh Library Systems has spawned the world's first and only center for academic study of the horror genre.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall, but rather lightning.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.