Places The Donut Guy Wants to Go

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

Tucked away in the Tower of London is the weapon once used to execute high-profile prisoners.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

This temple contains what might be the world's oldest optical illusion.

This off-limits room in the National Library of France is home to a system of pneumatic tubes, once used to bring books to readers.

Five acres of divinely inspired folk art.

A mosaic-tiled house built by graveyard sweeper Raymond Isidore.

The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

This Cold War–era fallout shelter was actually a storage facility for the nation's emergency currency.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

The prison where Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf," and 278 Nazis were later executed for war crimes.

This National Natural Landmark is one of the best examples of a “mass wasting” in the world.

In the loving memory of a tragically deceased role-player this Illinois park is decked out with both dungeons and dragons.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

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

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.