Places kirstybennetts Wants to Go

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

A flamboyant five-story building in Bulgaria resembles a crawling snail.

An abandoned World War II tank left to rust in the downland.

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

Abstract dinosaur models in London.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

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

An abandoned monument remembering the "Pančevo Holocaust" now stands as a shadow of its former self.

Ride in 1960s style on the private luxury train Marshal Josip Tito used to travel around Yugoslavia.

Despite being pillaged and destroyed a number over times down the centuries, this historic church still sort of stands.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

Located along Lysaya Mountain, this monastery is home to the largest statue of Buddha in Russia.

A decommissioned tube carriage within a London museum hosts a regular pop-up supper club.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.