Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

A onetime gangsters' hideaway where you can dine on steaks, fine wines, and cigars just like they once did.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

While you're unlikely to find riches here these days, this remote mine is a time capsule of the Gold Rush era.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

The ruins of a paper mill destroyed during the Civil War still tower over a tributary of the Chattahoochee River.

A waterfall 600 ft. inside a mountain, once the bane of gold miners, is now a spectacle of nature.

A small island in Lake Garda that was used as a burial site, pirate hideout, and a monastery.

This trail follows unique stone railroad tracks and a historic waterway to the south coast of Devon.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

The whimsical twist of this spire was either caused by the Devil, an unexpected virgin, or lead.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

The only zoo where you can buy animals that won't need feeding.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

6000-year-old coal fire moves one meter per year.

From overly ambitious (and eventually abandoned) atomic dream to bustling office park.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

An abstract and eyecatching clock/fountain is the centerpiece of this little-known German city.