Places lorenzolade Wants to Go

Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

A cherry tree growing atop a mulberry tree.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

A formerly opulent Italian village is now a crumbling ghost town that no one really knows what to do with.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

An ancient artistic garden parlor full of hidden water wonders.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

The odd depiction of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus is rooted in the Catholic Church's eradication of Catharism.

Long-abandoned art nouveau baths beneath Milan's Piazza Oberdan.

The train platform where Jews were sent to concentration camps is now preserved as a Holocaust memorial.

An exclusive waiting room built for the royal family in the 1920s is hidden in Milan’s central station.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.