Places youeitherseeitoryoudont Wants to Go

Kitschy steak joint where customers can cook their own meat over an eternal flame.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

This modern New Zealand attraction honors ancient forms of astronomy and scientific understanding.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

Journey through time by touring Wellington's oldest original cottage.

This kinetic sculpture focuses the sounds of the city when you stand inside.

Leave a trinket at this artistic collection of mailboxes.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

These prehistoric replicas were based on actual skeletal remains.

A rare venue to buy specialty maps.

A former elementary school houses one man's extensive collection of art, artifacts, and taxidermy.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

The rusting hulk of a 250-foot-long merchant vessel remains where she grounded on the shore of Hudson Bay.

A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark.

This former outpost was designed to protect the lucrative fur trade of the 18th century.

You don't have to visit the deep blue sea to see these majestic creatures swimming wild and free.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.