Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

A spitting ode to a German serial killer.

These lesser-known Maltese catacombs date back over 1,700 years.

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

A Nevada mining boomtown that ran out of silver and luck.

No one knows for sure why this town's dead refuse to rot.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

This abandoned oil depot produces world's longest echo in a manmade structure.

Impressive sink holes fill this untouched old-growth forest in the Bahamas.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

The deserted railroad town had a last gasp as a ghost town attraction before being abandoned for good.

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.