Places jakechouston Wants to Go

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

Ruins of a 10th century church tucked away deep in a botanical garden.

A magnificent Neogothic tomb hides within this Italian fairytale-like forest.

Amalfi's pre-industrial history is slowly being engulfed by the lush vegetation of the Ferriere Valley.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

This magical-looking island is notorious for the misfortunes suffered by its owners.

This 16th-century monastery has been turned into a surrealist architecture compound.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

On the cliffs of São Jorge in the Azores stand the remains of a lighthouse that was struck by a series of earthquakes.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital said to be haunted by the patients who died within its walls.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

This spaceship-like structure was once a popular roadside restaurant.

A beautiful, abandoned farming headquarters overtaken by nature and graffiti.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

Built by an accountant with a dream of running a grand resort, this estate has sat vacant for over half a century.

An enormous factory from the late 1800s sits abandoned on Cleveland eastside.

The last remnants of a lakeside airport that was bulldozed overnight by the mayor of Chicago.