Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Abandoned waterpark turned counter-culture mecca.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This pristinely abandoned filling station on the edge of a graveyard is populated solely by unsettling mannequins.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

Located in the house where Gustave Flaubert was born, this odd museum has more to do with medical grotesquery than the Western novel.

These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

This pair of eccentric Ohio castles were built by a pair of brothers who wanted to bring a bit of class to the Ohio wilderness.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The world's largest maze is a nature park with nearly 200 decision points.