Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

What was once the largest mine in North America has left behind a hollow hill filled with bright blue waters.

This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.

The remains of a paranoid inventor's hidden workshop lie in beautiful ruins amidst a Canadian park.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

This stunning gothic ruin was a casualty of the Indiana steel industry crash.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

The gilded vestiges of a sterling department store can still be found in a Brooklyn shopping center.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This sprawling Belgian fort was once thought of as impenetrable but now it is simply an abandoned relic.

This former Welsh metal factory is now a lovely abandoned relic but was once one of the industry's world leaders.

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

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.

Silver in the hills led to the speedy creation of this boom town and a lack of it saw the town abandoned nearly as quickly.