Places escapementality Wants to Go

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.

Dynastic Home of the De Piro Family.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This piece of early engineering is rather unknown despite its location in the heart of Madrid.

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

A must for film lovers in Madrid and home to the Spanish Film Library's projection space.

An iconic and controversial ancient Iberian funerary urn with a hauntingly penetrating gaze.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

Costa Rica's best known combat zone, used during the Battle of Santa Rosa.

Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.

These abandoned country fairgrounds are filled with replicas of Spanish monuments.

Shrapnel, dynamite, bullets and Franco couldn't destroy this bust, rescued and kept hidden as a family secret for over 40 years.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

A lush indoor jungle fills this bustling Madrid transportation hub.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

An ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of Madrid, Spain.

The oldest restaurant in the world is this old-world Spanish eatery, still known for its suckling pig.