Places angusyallop Wants to Go

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

When the river dries up, these stones start talking.

This hanging crocodile is thought to be the "dragon" that once plagued a Czech city.

This spooky statue sits outside a famous Prague theater.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

A crumbling monument to a now locally-extinct sport in Bulgaria's oldest ski resort.

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

A supersonic jet stands on a pedestal in this rural village as a monument to military aviation.

These natural cliffs look like they are a part of an old castle complex.

Mysterious standing stone formations looks like a petrified forest.

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

This tiny Bulgarian town offers a stunning location in the mountains and a storied history.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

English-speaking soldiers discovered Europe's best one-liner at the end of World War II, before the town’s name changed.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.