Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

An underground city of salt.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

One of the world’s few undersea pedestrian tunnels connects Honshu and Kyushu islands.

A hauntingly preserved early 20th-century industrial flour mill featuring a grand central tower, ornate spiral staircases, and original milling machinery left untouched.

A seven-story circular concrete tower, once the heart of Ferrara’s Eridania distillery, resembles a modern industrial Colosseum.

Carved through granite boulder fields and primeval forests, this roaring river valley once served as the secret naval training ground for the legendary Tay Son insurgency.

The façade of Soviet Azerbaijan's state printing house is shaped like an open book, inlaid with writing systems from Egyptian hieroglyphs to a Mayan calendar.

These high mineral baths were used by Roman soldiers, royals, and the military before opening to the public in 2005.

A monumental palace that began as a stock exchange, became the headquarters of Hungarian Television, and spent years largely unused.

Once built to revive one of the world's most legendary car brands, this futuristic factory in Italy now stands abandoned as a striking monument to Bugatti's short-lived 1990s comeback.

Abandoned and overgrown town with views of the Mediterranean Sea.

The blood-soaked ruins of the castle where the murderous Blood Countess was walled in alive.

You can soak in private hot tubs infused with beer while pouring unlimited Czech beer from your own tap.

The mausoleum of a national hero of Albania is placed in a former church and mosque

Built on the side of a mountain, this once poor village has been turned into the "Santorini of Korea"

This 19th-century stone bridge in Mayenne was renamed after an American soldier who died defusing explosives placed under it, saving it from destruction during the town’s liberation in August 1944.

The world’s oldest military museum has remained largely unchanged since the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.