Places unceremony Wants to Go

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

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

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

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

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.