Places longitudelexitude Wants to Go

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

This abandoned asylum in Wales might look haunted, but it's still beautiful.

The decaying ruins of Wales' first asylum for the mentally ill.

Manchester's abandoned train depot lingers in a post-industrial purgatory.

This picturesque archeological site looks like it was pulled straight from a fantasy novel.

This hospital once pioneered the use of electroencephalograms, but fell into maltreatment, abuse, and eventual abandonment.

One of the oldest and certainly best preserved Cistercian abbeys still in existence.

The rust covering this old mine's abandoned buildings matches the red pigment it once produced.

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

Formerly abandoned underground complex to keep royals safe from a nuclear war that never came.

The community pools that the community refused to give up on.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

St. Mary's Asylum was isolated and abandoned before being converted into a Bed and Breakfast.

This Scottish manor house is a lush relic from the life of a literary great.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

A tiny islet just off Long Island offers a wealth of infectious curiosities.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.