Places kosmostasis Wants to Go

Once the legendary capital of the Dacian Kingdom, this city has been reduced to mere ruins.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

The tomb of one of the greatest travelers in history.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

A literary park dedicated to the memory of a filmmaker, writer, and intellectual who was killed in 1975.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

Every half hour, the flow of this unusual spring cycles between a rush of water and barely a trickle.

So opulent and massive it was once dubbed a palace, this hotel's doors closed temporarily in 2007 and failed to reopen.

This amazing oasis of art and plants is hidden on the outskirts of Marrakesh.

This Stone Age solar temple aligns with the sun on each equinox and solstice.

The way that light hits a stained glass window on a specific day is one of many "clues" to a mysterious treasure.

French commune at the heart of conspiracies.

This French castle is said to have once held the Holy Grail but is now a gorgeous mountaintop ruin.

Green labyrinth formed by a karstic maze hidden in a preserved oak forest.

An abstract sculpture that will be a work in progress for the next 1,000 years.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

The world’s tallest outdoor lift stretches along the stone pillars that inspired the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

This trio of reliefs—an ear, a mouth, and a pair of eyes—carved into the walls of flooded quarries is a monument to spying.

Divers can encounter an abandoned warship encircled by a giant kraken submerged in the British Virgin Islands.