Places goingtoreno Wants to Go

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.

Once a thriving town of 100, Argonne was abandoned around 1970.

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

Terrifying derelict military hospital once housed a recuperating Hitler.

This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This church carved into the rocks is full of enchanting stone statues.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

An existential riddle in the world's largest ancient castle.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

A controversial artwork draws attention to the dark history of Prague's "Suicide Bridge."

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The palace window through which Protestant nobles flung two Catholic regents, thus sparking the Thirty Years' War.

One of the famous Czech artist's lesser-known Prague installations appears to be a glowing fetus affixed to a drainpipe.