Places jj8937 Wants to Go

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

A striking 12th-century-style castle built on the edge of a cliff.

Remnants of a cone-shaped Nazi bomb shelter.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

This ancient ruined monastery has been destroyed by fire so many times that it seems like God hates it.

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.

This old, abandoned hotel offers magnificent views.

Abandoned since 1998, this train station has become an oasis for urban explorers.

Take a leisurely walk through the park to find the seven giant troll sculptures hidden throughout the park.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

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

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

If you look closely at the oldest bridge in Paris, you might notice hundreds of ugly faces leering from its sides.