Places Tomas Zagoda Wants to Go

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This urban stream flowing underneath Tasmania's capital city is also an unofficial gallery for street artists.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

A miniature cathedral made of 20,948 tiny pieces of marble.