Places jaysutton79 Wants to Go

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

All of the 20 occupied houses in this mostly abandoned town feature some curious display of junk art.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

The final resting place of 19th-century sailors previously banned from being buried within Portuguese Macau.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

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

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.