Places jakechouston Wants to Go

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

A mysterious, abandoned building rotting on the Brooklyn waterfront.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

A former connection to City Island, it has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.

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

This forlorn park is the result of a failed investment turned tax dodge.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

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

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

This abandoned gun tower was built to defend the River Thames from a French naval attack.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient's insanity.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.