Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

A 19th century pearling and fishing village abandoned before Qatar's economic boom.

Jacksonville's highways rendered this century-old grammar school unusable.

Flaming barrels of tar race through these village streets on Bonfire Night, a tradition that dates back centuries.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

For centuries no one knew there were hundreds of bones and precious artwork hidden beneath this Swiss church.

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

One of the few places where inexperienced snorkelers can spot a shark.

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Rotting dome home spotted near Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

A more chill but no less fascinating version of the famous ancient archeological site.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

This ancient rock painting is the oldest evidence of humans’ love affair with honey.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.