Places F40fan Wants to Go

Few would expect the world's oldest preserved oil refinery to be found in Sweden.

The world's biggest floating museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.

The place to be if you love vintage Swedish cars.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

Frequent fliers welcome in this airplane hotel.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

This living legend of maritime history is enjoying a second life.

A former factory serves as a shrine to the industry that sustained Santorini for decades.

Once the largest rope factory in Greece, this abandoned plant now stands like a ghost of industry past.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This small electronics museum is full of whirring, humming, clicking ephemera.

In the Netherlands, one of the world's largest private car collections can be found.