Places felgueirosa Wants to Go

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

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

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

This Shetland Islands bus shelter may be small, but it squeezes in a couch, a desk, some art, and even an old telly.

This tin chapel was built by POW's during World War II and is painted to look like something much more grand.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

The oldest of Venice's plague quarantine stations, designed to keep the medieval city safe from disease.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

An ambiguous ambience emanates from this centuries old leprosy quarantine.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

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

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

This former fascist summer camp was abandoned for decades.