Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

A surviving concrete arrow from a 1920s navigational network is preserved right off a modern freeway.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

Established over a thousand years ago, this family-run teahouse continues to serve skewers of sweet rice cake to this day.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Nikola Tesla's former home contains an homage hidden from plain sight.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

Lions carved into the rockface adorn these two tombs built into the mountains of Dadan.

This is one really big nut.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.