Places geobeck19 Wants to Go

A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

When the Soviets destroyed the historic Armenian monastery they somehow left its bell tower intact.

A lively circle of dancers in the Georgian capital commemorates an ancient rite of spring.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

The quarry was abandoned over 100 years ago, after a massive ammunition explosion ended in tragedy.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The second largest maple syrup producer in the U.S. runs a high-tech operation.

A distillery built on (and above!) mobster Dutch Schultz's Prohibition-era underground moonshine business.

This one-man homegrown eatery may be the world's most exclusive restaurant with its five-year waiting list.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."