Places bugscrap Wants to Go

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

One of Edinburgh's most popular works of street art is located well off the beaten path.

A hidden lane full of top-quality street art.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

The largest outdoor art gallery in the Northwest United States.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

Originally slated to become a luxurious resort, this structure is now a graffiti haunt reclaimed by nature.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

Tucked away in the forests of Indiana resides an abandoned waterslide that is now a popular graffiti haunt.

A fantastic place to see murals, and an important location in the history of Toronto's legal street art scene.

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

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

The most beautiful Taco Bell in the world even has surfboard parking.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

Worship at the altar of seafood at this shop housed inside the town's oldest stone church.

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.