Places jj8937 Wants to Go

The Victoria-era quarantine station for Sydney.

The yawning remains of a complex naval fortress still haunt this Australian shore.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

Remnants of cells from the most notorious London prison may lie in the basement of a rare Victorian Gin Palace.

In this cobwebbed old operating theater, you can practically hear the screams of the unanesthetized patients.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Failed state-supported institution meant to rehabilitate students with intellectual disabilities.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.