Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

The remnants of an abandoned, 19th-century gold mill along Aruba's rugged northeastern coast.

A safe place for the wild donkeys of a hot vacation destination.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

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

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

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

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