Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

On the walking path from Monterosso to Vernazza, a small shrine dedicated to feline friends.

A series of waterfalls create the illusion of perpetual rainfall in this hidden gorge.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

The oldest library in Pune.

The site where the Spanish first landed in Mexico was once a thriving Mesoamerican city.

This exhibit showcases the literary work of soldiers who suffered "shell shock" during World War I.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

An immersive Māori village where you can learn history and heritage through dance, ceremony, song, architecture, and food.

The remains of a military communications outpost still stand on this Greek island.

In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

After several weeks of radio silence, this abandoned oil tanker washed up on a remote beach in Liberia.

This abandoned prison was so notorious that its name has become a metaphor throughout Albania.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

As of 2022, the 124 rooms of Kosovo ski resort remain empty.

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

The remains of Abó, Gran Quivera, and Qurai are monuments to the long, complicated history of the Indigenous people of the Southwest.

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

Dine inside a giant caterpillar at this community-run eatery.

A vibrant colony of rescued wolves and other canids.

A nearly century-old amusement park is quietly decaying in a riverside forest in South Carolina.