Places bartholomej Wants to Go

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This small exhibition displays equipment and artifacts once belonging to the feared Stasi secret police.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

This abandoned mausoleum from 1815 sits deep within the forest surrounding Callendar House.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

This East German military command bunker was ready for World War III.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

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

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.