Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

In DeWitt, New York, a blanket-wrapped gas station makes a creative statement on global dependence on oil.

Abandoned rock quarry now a haven for mountain bikers and hikers.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

This mausoleum is the final resting place of one of St. Louis's richest and most tragic families.

This unassuming riverbank is Missouri’s first designated site in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

This titanic oil company sign is a reminder of the Americana boom of the 1970s and also its commoditization.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

Speak to a companion on the other side of the room loud and clear through this architectural anomaly.

An urban forest overtakes what was the greatest failure of utopic urban housing.

The first rural cemetery west of the Mississippi is home to the elaborate tombs of St. Louis' local beer barons.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.