Places Hopla Wants to Go

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

What better place to learn about the beautiful game than an actual soccer ball-shaped building?

A prehistoric route that has claimed many victims is now closed to traffic.

One of the windiest peaks in Crimea is home to an incredible set of cable bridges.

This church, buried halfway in lava rock, is all that remains of a Mexican village destroyed by a volcano.

A tribute to the region's rich history of pottery art.

This door in the old residential area of Guadalajara hides several communist motifs.

A beautiful and controversial modern sculpture that alludes to the Aztec past identity of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the phenomenon of syncretism.

An eccentric artist's abode in this small Italian town has been transformed into a surreal temple of mosaic madness.

In Mexico, an abandoned Scottish-looking castle stands as a tribute to love.