Places TheSpaceflight Guy Wants to Go

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

This small beachside park commemorates the possibilities of discovery.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Besides being home to cave paintings and pre-Columbian Cuban archaeological remains, you get to take a boat through this stalactite and stalagmite covered cave.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

A bronze sculpture of Lenin’s likeness outside Havana surrounded by 12 human figures in solidarity with the Bolshevik Revolution.

A colossal statue with a controversial past, forgotten for more than 30 years.

The enormous smoke hides within a little known, semi-secret exhibit inside Havana’s Morro Castle Historic Park.

His music once banned in Communist Cuba, John Lennon is now immortalized in bronze by Castro, who considers Lennon a "fellow dreamer."

All that remains of a sugar mill destroyed during the War of Independence of 1895.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

Former WWI oil tanker played a variety of roles in history, its tantalizing rum-flavored scent being the only constant.

A 220-foot deep watery drop-off, filled with marine life.

This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.

A sinkhole known simply as "The Hole."

The rusted remains of a victim of Hurricane Ike.

Uninhabited islet in the Caribbean is the sanctuary of giant lizards.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

The final resting place for Bermuda's British military, including a man who died of sunstroke.

The abandoned Bermudian home of a British naval leader is surrounded by crumbling sporting fields and the graves of convicts.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

In Bermuda, this formal naval residence has become a go-to for cliff-jumpers and hikers.