Saint Paul, Minnesota
Wabasha Street Caves
These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.
Sebastopol, California
Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."
Tromsø, Norway
The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.
Løkken, Denmark
An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.
Strand, Norway
This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.
Forsand, Norway
This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.
Bergen, Norway
The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.
Oslo, Norway
An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands
This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
Mellieħa, Malta
An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Johannesburg, South Africa
The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.
Botswana
Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.
Ravenna, Italy
Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.
Falmouth, Jamaica
Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.
Juraguá, Cuba
A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.
Trinidad, Cuba
This subterranean disco dance club in a Cuban cave comes with bright lights and a dark legend.
Cuba
Former WWI oil tanker played a variety of roles in history, its tantalizing rum-flavored scent being the only constant.
Canale Monterano, Italy
The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.
Genga, Italy
This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.
San Fruttuoso, Italy
A sunken idol welcomes parishioners to Davy Jones' Locker.
Italy
Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri.
Nervesa della Battaglia, Italy
Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.