Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.

One-of-a-kind preserved ruins of an abandoned 1880s church in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood.

This once-booming gold mining hub was basically abandoned overnight.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

An abandoned fishing village in pre-oil Qatar.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

This abandoned stepwell is one of the largest, deepest, and certainly one of the creepiest in India.

Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

A scenic ravine with an astounding collection of rock art created by the Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

A bright turquoise river cascades beautifully down stepped terraces in southern China.

Scattered ruins and a tiny cemetery are all that remain of a failed attempt to colonize the inhospitable Desolate Islands.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

Before it was abandoned and left to rust alongside the road, this riverboat starred in a John Wayne movie.

Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus' 6,000-year-old copper industry.

A tall smoke stack and boarded-up buildings are all that's left of the pioneering plant.

This 5,300-year-old tomb with mysterious carvings crowns an Irish mountain.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

The enormous diamond-shaped building packs a trove of academic and literary treasures into one futuristic space.

With its mine closed, this old village is starting to resemble a ghost town.