Places krittypryde Wants to Go

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

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

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.