Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

The southernmost point in the United States is a beautiful place to look at but a deadly place to wade in.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This series of underground chambers contains Europe's largest subterranean lake that is slowly drained each day.

At one time this small mining village was the highest town in America but now it sits abandoned while the mine churns on.

This partially completed dam was simply abandoned after nearly destroying the city it was built to service.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This abandoned seaside fortress is now simply an imposing ruin being taken back by nature.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

After much poking and prodding, this island is decidedly not a magnetic anomaly, but it sure is pretty.

This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.

The innovative Nigerian floating school that may just be a glimpse into the future of design in a world of troubling climate changes.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

This Belgian theme park began as a refuge for bored church children and was closed down when a boy lost an arm.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.