Places felgueirosa Wants to Go

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

This uber-quaint Polish village is known for its habit of painting elaborate floral motifs on just about everything.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

This wooden recreation of a 9th century lake village looks as though it was built yesterday (which it relatively was).

Remote, beautiful, and stigmatized, Las Hurdes is Spain's version of Appalachia.

As the aging humans of this Japanese village die off one local artisan is replacing them with eerie homonculi.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

Abandoned Air Force base that has fallen into disrepair.

Spend the night in 1920s Latvia in this historic recreation and movie set.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Now a pile of ruins and rubble, this was a lovely mountain town as recently as 1960.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

Villas that once served as playgrounds for the rich now fall away in decay.

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

What was once the base for Russia's first nature reserve is now a ghost town, right on the shore of Lake Baikal.