Places jakechouston Wants to Go

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

The abandoned airport is a strangely intact remnant of Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

Where the sleeping monsters of Scotland's oil industry are left to rust.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

An imperial fortress city that incorporated cultural elements from the entire Mughal empire, only to be abandoned the year it was finished.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

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

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

A haunting deserted hotel is a favorite with artists and photographers.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

This 47-story "M" needed 20 years to be completed

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.