Places CL Tee Wants to Go

The world's first jet-powered aircraft were assembled by the Germans in this secret factory in the forest during WWII.

Hidden in the forest are the remains of a former World War II chemical plant.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

An abandoned observatory in the middle of the Illinois prairie.

A paradise hotel turned from opulent to overgrown.

Though an earthquake destroyed this village in 1980, one former resident still walks its streets every day.

The abandoned buildings of a hospital that saw most of its activity during the World Wars.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

The remains of a former colonial fort on a stretch of beach that is occasionally visited by crocodiles.

This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.

Legend says those who drink from this trickle of water are destined to return to Montserrat.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

An abandoned company town and cement factory outside of Bogotá, now haunted by ghosts and scofflaws.

An enormous Soviet aircraft, the only one of its kind, stands at the deserted shore of the Caspian Sea.

The overgrown remains of one of the premier auto-racing speedways in the Midwest—and also one of the most deadly.

For nearly 50 years this airplane that crashed during World War II remained missing in the remote Australian backcountry.

Art installations, derelict railcars, and endangered grasshoppers all call this south Berlin park home.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

The deserted remains of a luxury hotel turned hospital ward.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Believed to be the first museum dedicated to the films in the world.

Lions carved into the rockface adorn these two tombs built into the mountains of Dadan.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.