Places Dubbnium Wants to Go

This abandoned prison was so notorious that its name has become a metaphor throughout Albania.

A small museum dedicated to the history and design of German packaging.

Austria's very first and only nuclear power station was completed but never used.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

A centuries old castle atop a dormant volcano houses museums devoted to both women and witches.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Dress up like a miner and take a slide into the disco-lit depths of this once foundational salt mine.

Part ski resort, part modern art space, this lodge brings giant metal spiders and bloody doors to the Austrian Alps.

Climb the dead electric pylons of Messina.

142 ceramic steps become a mosaic once a year.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

These abandoned Cold War-era bunkers are now a designated refuge for endangered bat species.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

Barcelona's only remaining tram system takes riders to the Tibidabo funicular.

One of the most photographed buildings in a city known for its Modernista architecture is an abandoned squat.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.