Places Lana Velkov Wants to Go

The private train station King Leopold II built for the Belgian royal family now lies abandoned.

The Belgian royal family's private depot now stands abandoned and forgotten alongside the tracks.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

An old department store turned Nazi prison turned artist commune.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

In the summer of 1957, a massive architectural exhibition showed off the future of urban living in this German neighborhood.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

Berlin's old airport.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

This distinctive snowfield on the slopes of a Colorado fourteener has several legendary origin stories.

The highest concentration of Art Deco buildings in the world.

An eccentric castle with snake protectors and spectacular views of Beppu.

A rich Serb hired foreign craftsmen to secretly build the castle of his dreams.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Order a whiskey neat in the former jail of Kowloon’s British-era Marine Police Headquarters.

This decaying, grandiose tweed mill once housed the Norwegian Army in exile.

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

This house was home to a succession of park keepers for more than 90 years, but in all that time, it never had a toilet.

Once a palace for the Archbishop of York, these 15th-century ruins now serve as a haunt for history buffs.

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

This spaceship-like structure was once a popular roadside restaurant.