Places Gradius Wants to Go

The maze-like transportation hub contains abandoned areas, derelict stores, and a resident bat colony.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

Neighborhood in Jerusalem is home to the ultra-orthodox haredim.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

As the Dead Sea continues to deplete, massive sinkholes open along its banks.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

Crumbling ruins of the thermal baths that once attracted royals and aristocrats from throughout Europe.

This dizzying tower was built to better broadcast the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

This abandoned fighter jet launch center is now a haunting street racing course.