Kiruna, Sweden
Icehotel
The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Kiruna, Sweden
The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.
Ixmiquilpan, Mexico
A park in Mexico offers all the experiences of an illegal border crossing except for one: the border.
Mexico City, Mexico
An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.
Kalkar, Germany
An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.
Stratford, Connecticut
The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.
Prague, Czechia
This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Fairbanks, Alaska
Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Baltimore, Maryland
George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Berlin, Germany
Fall down the rabbit hole into a surreal journey of human consciousness "from ass to soul."
Itaguaí, Brazil
An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.
Golden Valley, Arizona
A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.
Gruyères, Switzerland
The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Los Angeles, California
During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.
Near Lake Arrowhead, California
Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.
San Bernardino, California
This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.
Sankt Andreasberg, Germany
Goethe's "Faust" was inspired by these rock formations known as the "Devil's Pulpit" and "Witches' Altar."
Berlin, Germany
The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.