Places akiraa1 Wants to Go

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The oldest western-style houses in Japan are centered around the industrialist Thomas Glover.

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

Despite its location in the English countryside, this chapel is the property of Ontario, Canada.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

A unique and poignant sidewalk mural commemorates the deaths of two striking workers.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

The remains of 40,000 humans, meticulously stacked in a tiny churchyard shed.

A World War I German experimental concrete plant, hidden deep in a French forest.

A memorial to the soldiers who died in the bloody battles to control Verdun in World War I.

Site of one of World War I's most horrific scenes.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

This historic textile city was abandoned after being ravaged by fire.

This abandoned nitrate town was repurposed as a dictator's prison.

Almost all that remains of a town dedicated to supporting the First Transcontinental Railroad.

A historic ghost town still worth a visit.

To get to or from this Canadian ghost town, you'll need to cross 11 single-lane bridges.

Only a few remaining items alert intrepid explorers that a town once stood in this region.

All that remains of this former mill town is a ranger station and some crumbling buildings.

This once-thriving coastal area is now a preserved ghost town.

One of the Hakka "ghost villages" of Plover Cove famed for its haunted locked compass legend.