Places illaberec Wants to Go

Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

A cheeky architectural easter egg.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

Dynamite factory turned museum explores the history of explosives.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Crammed inside this grounded passenger plane is a bar that was once a Communist hang out and is now a ratty relic.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

Walk through living pictures and music in the Cathedral of Images.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

Finnish lake, and scene of an infamous murder mystery.

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.