Places jacobmunkhammar Wants to Go

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A mud brick kasbah with a history of lavishness and traitorship.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

This twice-relocated "Usonian" home is among the smallest built by master architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

This museum is filled with an eclectic collection of unique inventions.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

Home to a full-scale replica of the Ezekiel Airship, an aircraft that allegedly flew in 1902—a year before the Wright brothers took to the skies over Kitty Hawk.

Trees emerge from the surface of this small man-made reservoir.

This poured-concrete water reservoir is a gem of modernist architecture well-hidden in a city forest.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

This open-air, narrow-gauge railway museum pays homage to the region's transportation history.

This small museum once served as a royal hunting pavilion for King Otto Friedrich Ludwig.

A room filled with frescos that make it seem like the walls are crumbling down while giants die in despair.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

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

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

Featured in one of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.