Places Closed247 Wants to Go

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

A massive bridge forms part of an aqueduct that was deemed an architectural wonder of its time.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

This village in the northeast of France is packed with book shops.

Ride a dragon train into a world of dwarves.

This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

A cableway for car transport.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.

We're not in Kansas anymore: the Strabag headquarters has a playful upside-down addition.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

The inverted pyramid design of this station stands out amid Bratislava's urban landscape.

This Slovakian statue of an emerging sewer worker might just be a bronze peeping tom.

Launched by Napoleon's soldiers more than 200 years ago, a cannonball remains embedded in the tower wall.

This Slovak bridge is known both for its connection to a national uprising and its UFO-shaped eatery.

Often mistaken as a medieval Gothic monument, this unique cornerstone only dates back to the 1980s.

No one knows the origin of this creepy little stone man with an oversized phallus.

A visionary precursor to the Internet made of index cards.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.