Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

This 17th-century structure is a beautiful testimony to traditional Persian architecture

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

The beauty and the beast of hydraulic mining is on full display at this California Historic State Park.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

Three sinkholes filled with warm, crystal-clear water reached by a horse-driven cart on an old train track through the jungle.

This deserted palace is one of the finest examples of Indo-Islamic architecture in India.

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

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

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

This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.

A mile-long navigable cave adorned with stalactites and stalagmites reaching up to 65 feet tall.

This mountain sunrise is one of the most breathtaking views in Thailand, yet well off the tourist trail.

Parts of this sprawling temple complex are deteriorating, but its founder’s body remains intact.

An enormous Buddha peers through a gap in its ruined chamber.

Abandoned mini-mansions that were once intended for affluent Bangkok families now sit empty.