Places kosmostasis Wants to Go

A science fiction-inspired apartment building designed by a famous Spanish architect.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.

This hill is known for its connection to the occult in Slavic tradition.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

An exhibition devoted to the life (and posthumous taxidermy form) of the last known representative of the Pinta Island Tortoises.

This cryptic monument honors a mysterious dead woman, despite her identity being lost centuries ago.

Its frescoes depict the likeness of Marshal Tito, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels burning in hell.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

Buried deep in the forest near Limbe, this little-known slave port became the point of no return for 10 percent of enslaved Africans.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

The world's largest aggregation of great white sharks is at a mysterious spot in the middle of the ocean.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

Massive sinkholes on a mountain in one of the most remote places in Venezuela.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

Hidden deep in a forest is this geological wonder carved by glaciers.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

Legend has this precariously placed rock was placed by giants. Science has another explanation.