Places CQ Wants to Go

Repurposed space and ultra-modern construction collide to create this geometric wooden spectacle.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Walk upon the mementos of the dead in this Parisian courtyard paved with medieval tombstones.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

Abandoned cemetery of the former Psychiatric Hospital of Volterra.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

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

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.