Places ams199 Wants to Go

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

Outdoor exhibits explore the contributions of European, African, and indigenous peoples to American frontier culture.

This plaque celebrates the sister city relationship between Fredricksburg and Fréjus.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This abandoned church languishing for decades is now one man's passion project and subject of paranormal investigators.

Though it won't take you far, the wood train housed at this station is the last of its kind in Japan.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

Thousands of medieval skeletons lie just beneath Kranj’s main square.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.

The palace for King Gustav III was never completed, but the foundation remains tucked away in this city park.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.

A throwback to 1980's gaming nostalgia.

Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.