Places frances van woglom Wants to Go

This Welsh village gave itself a ridiculous name in a publicity stunt a century ahead of its time.

Picturesque ruins once held off mighty armies.

These precariously placed ruins harken back to a 13th-century castle.

This ancient abbey now lies in majestic ruin behind a caravan park.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Remnants of a town from a bygone era.

Abandoned businesses, homes, and rusted cars are all that remains of this stopover town.

Population: 1.

Winter and summer solstice aligned sculpture in the middle of nowhere.

In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.

Storage units with a wartime past.

This nearly abandoned town was once a thriving mining community until a series of fires.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

These ancient burial caves carved into the cliffs offer a glimpse into prehistoric funeral practices and Menorca's early inhabitants.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

Unique Armenian monastery from the 13th century, reclaimed by nature but still welcoming visitors.

The surviving remnants of a destroyed medieval church now stand in a public park.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

In Portugal, a secluded stretch of untouched natural beauty hides at the bottom of a steep hill.

This abandoned fishing village may or may not be haunted.

An 11th-century medieval castle cascades over the town of Numão.