Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

The ruins of a 13th-century monastery that long served as a place of refuge from wars and raids.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

This amazing abuela became a diehard metal fan late in life and an icon of Madrid's '80s rock scene.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

A strange mishmash of ruins and abandoned structures hint at the park's many lives.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

An abandoned network of military bunkers and tunnels open for anyone willing to descend into the darkness.

Obscure and obsolete publications are given new life as works of art.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

The ancient necropolis houses the immense rock-cut tombs of four Persian kings.

Peaceful gardens hide an underground torture museum.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

An ancient underground cultic temple where sunlight penetrates on the summer solstice.