Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

This abandoned orphanage-turned-asylum witnessed a terrible chapter in Québec's history.

The tower in this 1,000-year-old mud-brick village seems to vibrate for no apparent reason.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

These abandoned ruins in the middle of Jaffna have withstood centuries of tumultuous power struggles.

The ruins of a once-thriving sugarcane plantation that was burned in the Second Seminole War.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.

These medieval monastery ruins are surprisingly overlooked by most tourists.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

An abandoned 19th-century iron factory perched along the outskirts of an idyllic village.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

The smallest port in France is named after the pirate who created it.