Places lilbird Wants to Go

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

The observation point offers spectacular views of the ruins of an ancient Armenian capital.

The concrete skeletons of an abandoned Swedish town hide among the trees.

Abstract monuments express sorrow and resilience at the site of a horrific massacre in Nazi-occupied Serbia.

A grand Yugoslav memorial to the group of partisans who fought and died resisting western Serbia’s Nazi occupation.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

Built as an anti-fascist tribute, this surreal Yugoslav memorial became an unwelcome symbol after the Croatian war for independence.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This museum is housed in an unassuming building that witnessed one of the most daring feats of satire in modern history.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Tiny pyrophyllite spheres from 3 billion years ago.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting.