Places denryuoh Wants to Go

While most books are made of wood, these wooden books are truly made of, and all about wood.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

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 world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

A visionary Italian architect created an impressive cluster of concrete structures for a family's private tomb.

One of the highest emergency huts in the world has been waiting almost a century to give imperiled climbers a place to lie down.

An abandoned village that resides along the mountains of the Aosta Valley.

A schoolhouse and chapel are all that remains of this alpine village.

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

These caves are home to a small church and were used to age cheese.

This overgrown mountain village has been abandoned for nearly a century.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

An abandoned piece of phallic art repurposed by locals into a makeshift fertility shrine.

If you want to talk to the Pope you will have to stare down this surreal vision of Jesus rising from a nuclear hell.

A twisted steel beam from the wreckage of the World Trade Center is the centerpiece of this memorial for those who died on September 11, 2001.