Peterborough, England
Lyveden New Bield
The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Peterborough, England
The intended purpose of this unfinished Elizabethan building remains a mystery.
Dingle, Ireland
A monument to a beloved aquatic folk hero in the Irish town of Dingle.
Huntsville, Texas
A pair of whimsical homes in Texas shaped like oversized Western wear.
Santa Maria Maggiore, Italy
The only museum in Italy dedicated to this ancient profession.
Mudurnu, Turkey
The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.
Irlavas pagasts, Latvia
A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.
Stomoplo, Bulgaria
Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.
Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain
This 18th-century project to build the world's tallest gravity dam was never completed.
Stockholm, Sweden
The palace for King Gustav III was never completed, but the foundation remains tucked away in this city park.
Rome, Italy
This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.
Venosa, Italy
The construction of a new church near Venosa was started in the 11th century, but never finished.
Oaxaca, Mexico
The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.
Cachi, Argentina
A Swiss man built this airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to.
Cane Garden Bay, British Virgin Islands
The oldest operating distillery in the BVI.
Oneida, New York
Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.
Cardiff, Wales
The world's oldest continuously operating record shop has been in Cardiff since 1894.
Casto, Italy
Memorial full of frescoes, in the middle of nowhere.
Aqaba, Jordan
This flagpole ranks among the world’s tallest and can be seen from three countries.
Kalsoy, Faroe Islands
This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.
Andros, Greece
Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.
Maligrad, Albania
This remote church calls a tiny island its sanctuary.
Vik, Iceland
A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.
Beatty, Nevada
Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.
Tatev, Armenia
The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.