Places benlloyd Wants to Go

Complex tile installations designed by a renowned Polish artist in a Warsaw subway.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

A Lovecraftian altar of nightmarish bronze chairs sits ominously on a boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta.

An installation at the border commemorates a battle from 972.

In the garden of a Georgia museum, without any explanation, is a monumental head of the Communist icon.

A vivid and terrifying mural blends pop-culture-style depictions of Hell with traditional Orthodox imagery.

According to local legend, this unassuming art gallery was once used to imprison witches.

The Cold War remnants of a nuclear missile launch site in the Northamptonshire countryside.

The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

This Brutalist building was once the tallest in Romania.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

A relic of Poland's shipbuilding past, reborn as a sky-high lookout.

This delicious Bosnian barbecue restaurant celebrates the diverse cuisine of Slovenia.

This stunningly massive housing complex is a go-to filming location for dystopian sci-fi cinema.

A suburban housing complex with astonishing architectural features, locally nicknamed "the Camemberts."

This cemetery of rusting Soviet-era steam locomotives and train cars offers an apocalyptic glimpse into a bygone era.

In a narrow river valley just north of Beirut, Lebanon, is a chronicle of human history unlike anything else in the world.

This old Soviet gas station is in perfect condition, one of the best-preserved mosaics in the country.

The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

The tallest stone dam in Poland was opened by Kaiser Wilhelm II himself.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.