Usually when someone is looking for a place to vacation, positive characteristics are sought. You’ll have access to sun, sea, comfy chairs, and preferably some kind of frozen drink. Of course, this all assumes that your brain is wired in a positive direction and that things like joy and surprise are the emotions you seek.
But what if you’re a psychopathic misanthrope who only wants suffering? Do you spend your days looking for ways to pollute the water supply or make everyone smaller? If that’s the case, you might consider traveling the world for new inspiration or finding a new headquarters instead.
6 Tower of London
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Supervillains love to take prisoners. More than that, they usually love torturing prisoners in strange, slow ways while explaining their plans. So for a modern supervillain, visiting the Tower of London must be like going to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Firstly, if you are a very bad person, the atmosphere is perfect. An old tower full of crows? Then your evil juices will flow. Plus, at the end of the tour, you can lock the unsuspecting Schmo in one of his historic cells and escape through the chaos.
5 Catacombs of Paris
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Another favorite location for supervillains is underground. They love bunkers, whether they’re there to drill to the center of the earth or to get stable, cool temperatures. If it is located underground in a large city, it is even more advantageous for them to unleash their calculations. Based on those factors alone, they’ll love the Catacombs system beneath Paris. Plus, it’s famously decorated with thousands of human skulls, which would make any supervillain happy if they didn’t ask when they could move in.
3 Chernobyl
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Speaking of bunkers, what better place to find inspiration than in one of humanity’s greatest events: Chernobyl? Destroyed areas will remain unsuitable for human life for the time being. They could even pretend that they had done this and were finally walking through the rubble left behind after the plan was successful. Sure, radiation may not be ideal, but think about it this way. You might end up with a super cool and intimidating mutation that becomes your trademark. A third small arm makes James’ poker showdown with Bond even more intense.
4 Pompeii
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Again, a great place to fantasize about finally taking revenge. I looked at the petrified corpses reaching towards the sky in horror and thought to myself, “They could be my enemies!” You could also look into Vesuvius itself to see if it’s something that could pop out again. Another big thing about Pompeii is the amazing Italian food. Supervillains have to eat too! Not that their megalomania is stopping them from enjoying a delicious, fresh ragu.
2 Queimada Grande Island
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Bilingualism aside, this name probably doesn’t evoke fear like some others, but another possibility is Snake Island. It’s off the coast of São Paulo and is almost guaranteed to be less crowded, at least for humans. That’s due to the fact that it’s completely full of snakes. This is 1 to 5 snakes per square meter, and not even the number of harmless small garden snakes. The main snake found on Snake Island is the golden lancehead, a type of pit viper with fast-acting, necrotic and extremely dangerous venom. Please bring a nice big bag. That way you can stockpile your own hole for the opposition when you return to headquarters!
1 Mariana Trench
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Unfortunately, this isn’t a place you can actually visit, but the development of some kind of diving bell might become a side project for the villain’s R&D department. Is it a deep, inky darkness, filled with the kinds of creatures a disturbed 16-year-old would draw in the margins of a binder? Perhaps the kind of creature that the young supervillain himself scribbled in place of his math homework? They’ll probably have the same reaction as seasoned tourists when they see bottlenose dolphins jumping up and down.
