Places arnaudleger14 Wants to Go

German and American troops joined forces to defend this fortress during the strangest battle of World War II.

The ruins of a military fortification sit atop this mountain.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Hike along an abandoned railway up to a popular pilgrimage site.

A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

A monument to peace, built by one man over the course of 25 years.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

The monument honors the mountaineers who were part of Europe’s best anti-Nazi forces.

Hike up to this abandoned hotel for one of the best panoramic views of the island of Gozo.

This abandoned building, which is the second-largest structure on the Maltese island of Comino, has a complicated past.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

These 19th-century military fortifications spanning the island of Malta now form a nice countryside hiking trail.

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.

So opulent and massive it was once dubbed a palace, this hotel's doors closed temporarily in 2007 and failed to reopen.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

These sprawling military housing quarters from the 1960s are now defunct and hidden in plain sight on Malta’s Mediterranean coast.

A proud bronze billy stands as an eternal symbol of Ireland's oldest festival, where a goat is made king.

These barriers stand as stark reminders of Northern Ireland's troubled past.

A museum marks and documents the site of the Titanic's launch.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.