Places Gamereg Wants to Go

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Forgotten German bunkers in China create a sharp cultural contrast.

This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.

The world's most active stratovolcano is almost always erupting.

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

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

One-time largest man-made structure in the world will be a park in 30 years.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

The Church of the Annunciation was carved into the face of a cliff, just like the rest of the town of Haute-Isle.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

This entire town moved to a safe location after it was devastated by an earthquake, but the remains of the original town are still around.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

On a dusty county road sit the ruins of a ghost town's abandoned church.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.