Places dawnrfifer Wants to Go

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Long before ultrasounds and modern testing, medical specimens like these conjoined twins helped physicians learn about congenital anomalies.

This museum is rotten with a century of wax medical deformities.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

A former gold rush boomtown has managed to stay in business for over 100 ramshackle years.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

A few dilapidated structures are all that remain of this deserted former silver mining town.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

An abandoned 19th-century hospital now swirling in ghost stories.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

This graveyard contains markers and monuments dedicated to some of the darkest chapters in Washington's history.

The nuns here cultivate silk to weave some of the finest scarves in the world.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

This synagogue is the only place of worship for New Delhi’s small Jewish community.