Places EdHinDC Wants to Go

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

An unused hyberbolic electricity pylon kept as architectural monument.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

Gargantuan home of Russian science.

Stalinist skyscraper built with help of cryotechnology.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

In the middle of downtown Brooklyn lies a 165 year old secret hidden right below the surface (closed to the public indefinitely).

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Fighting the British and making game shows for over 150 years.

Longest canal tunnel in the world, abandoned in the 1960s.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.