Places claracecile Wants to Go

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This once-booming oil city is now a relic of the region's industrial past.

Sited in an Inner Mongolian desert are the remnants of an important trade stop along the Silk Road.

Buddhist pilgrims journey to this sacred rock to leave offerings and have their wishes granted.

The tower in this 1,000-year-old mud-brick village seems to vibrate for no apparent reason.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

The relics are stored in a silver reliquary, where they can be seen through glass.

Come to this Polish museum to take a good, clean look at filth.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

Landscape of bizarrely shaped desert mountains and innumerable rock carvings.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

Home to some of the last true noodle artisans in New York.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.