Places HoboHillbilly Wants to Go

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

This open-air museum filled with 19th-century buildings offers a unique view of historic craftsmanship.

This beautiful Croatian fortress is haunted by legends of forbidden love.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

One of 200 religious buildings recognized as a “culture monument.” 

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

The largest and, arguably, most scenic fortress in Bhutan.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

An abandoned 14th-century castle and prison complex on a small island in the Neva River.

This burial mound is said to be the final resting place of Russia's first Viking ruler, Oleg of Novogrod.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

No one knows why ancient labyrinths were built on this tiny northern island.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

This handsomely carved wooden church is more than 800 years old.

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.

This striking royal residence is the largest Renaissance-style castle in Scandinavia.