Ridgedale, Missouri
Bat Bar in Lost Canyon Cave
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Ridgedale, Missouri
If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.
Bird Island, North Carolina
A mailbox that saved a nature reserve.
Durango, Colorado
A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.
Apopka, Florida
Approximately 65,000 gallons of crystal clear water pour out of this headspring every minute.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Spanish Town, British Virgin Islands
This huge pile of volcanic boulders hides a stunning network of secret grottoes.
Providenciales and West Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands
This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.
Lancaster, South Carolina
A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.
Milan, Italy
This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.
Fala, Scotland
The ruins of a world-renowned medieval hospital.
Manly, Australia
The ruins of Brisbane’s own Alcatraz now sit in the middle of a national park.
Reykjanes, Iceland
Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.
Nuremberg, Germany
The final resting place of one of Germany's most accomplished Renaissance men.
London, England
One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.
Palm Springs, California
An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.
Faroe Islands
The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.
Mannheim, Germany
In this German city center, the streets have no names.
Iceland
This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.
Chedglow, England
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Live long and prosper in Tennessee.
New York, New York
The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.
Paris, France
Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.
Washington, D.C.
There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.
Miramar, Mexico
The site where the Spanish first landed in Mexico was once a thriving Mesoamerican city.