Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A small museum in the Bay of Pigs gives the Cuban perspective on the famously failed U.S. invasion.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.

An abandoned 19th-century iron factory perched along the outskirts of an idyllic village.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

The longest stone bridge in England has an impressive history that dates back over 700 years.

The inky volcanic sand leads to reefs teeming with aquatic life waiting to be discovered by snorkelers and divers.

This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.

With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

Its impressive still-working beam engine is a thing of beauty for engineering history fans.

The whimsical steel spider lurking in the shadows of this suspension bridge shows that engineers can have a sense of humor.

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

A former top secret military tunnel is now stuffed with snow and open year-round to skiers.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

The vibrant buildings in the “capital of the comic strip” celebrate the art form that made it famous.

The site of a 19th century "dream city" that almost rivaled Chicago before being swallowed by the Indiana sand dunes.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.