Places kendershek Wants to Go

A forgotten Art Deco department store in central Budapest, where faded socialist-era retail grandeur meets the haunting beauty of urban decay.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.

One of the best examples of a Byzantine period monument in Albania.

A bronze woman in a stylized dress honors a courageous politician.

Hungarian Jews were ghettoized during the Second World War, but little remains of the original wall that closed the Jewish people off from the rest of the city.

A plaque bearing the names of those who dedicated themselves to protecting Budapest's Jewish population during World War II.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The 700-year-old fortress was the site of Count Orlok's castle in "Nosferatu."

A marvel of technology a century ago, this disused power station now offers a lovely glimpse into the industrial design of the past.

"Medieval" castle built in the mid-20th century by one family.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Hungarian self-built castle.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.