Places cmstoelb Wants to Go

This disused church, left to the elements of the Arctic Circle's forests is open for exploration.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

Trace the history of the nation’s early days at the site of America’s oldest stock exchange.

An underground unique sacred place in the Kazakh steppe in which Sufism and nomadic tradition merge.

This scenic road offers breathtaking mountain pass views and a quirky “magic road” illusion.

This 8-foot Anglo-Saxon cross is a rare surviving example of Mercian craftsmanship.

One of the world's richest men bought this former paper factory and transformed it into a mall.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

You can row a boat through this ancient underground reservoir.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

A vault of safe-deposit boxes in an old bank has been repurposed as a time capsule of Hispanic culture.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

This repurposed church offers a more literal way to get closer to the heavens.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Ruins of the Crusaders' headquarters.