Places vhunter Wants to Go

A large kangaroo sculpture on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain

A quiet museum preserves the extraordinary relics, processional treasures, and centuries-old traditions behind Catania's famous Feast of Saint Agatha.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

The last surviving footbridge in the Yakima Canyon, now a historic landmark, provides access to wilderness west of the Yakima River

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

A one-of-a-kind barrier keeps venomous snakes away from tourists

Closing the station left a big hole in the ground. So they put in a shopping centre, a block of apartments and bus station over it and the largest undercover car park Europe in it.

The peace and seclusion of Kyoto’s “Moss Temple” is no accident.

A 400-year-old ruined palace on top of a hill, overlooking the sleepy village of Al-Ghayl, some 300 km south of Riyadh.

A Provincetown shop that sells exactly one thing — a pink cupcake — and whose owner fought the town for the right to keep selling it.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Head past the aisles of tropical fruit and imported candy at this bodega to discover a hidden, weekends-only taco stand.

This ruined temple's giant Buddha statue bears the scars of the Second Indochina War.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

This parking garage was the site of what was - at the time - the largest cash robbery in history.

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

A Japanese pilot crash-landed on this Hawaiian island after the Pearl Harbor attack and terrorized locals for a week.

One of the oldest wine cellars in Germany is now a restaurant beneath Bremen's town hall.

The "Versailles of the Jungle" built by a dictator is now a decaying shadow of its hubristic grandeur.

Remains of Roman amphitheater hidden in a sleepy quarter of Paris.