Places dianesaurus Wants to Go

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

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

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Blowtorches, tuna, and a jolly, chain-smoking proprietor mark this beloved street-food stand.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

This abandoned shopping arcade has new life as an art installation.

After a catastrophic forest fire, a Greek artist transformed scorched tree trunks outside an old sanatorium into this haunting sculpture garden.

This graffitied 19th-century building was a prototype of European industrial architecture.

This multisensory alley has the ability to remind bustling citygoers to stop and smell the roses.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.