Places marasta215 Wants to Go

This outdoor gallery of graffiti-covered walls pays homage to the past, present, and possible future of street art.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This once sprawling resort now sits abandoned, filled with graffiti and vibrant colors from an era long passed.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

The Catskills retreat of naturalist writer John Burroughs.

The former home of a disgraced local priest now hosts a mysterious secret supper club.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

A massive collection of petroglyphs dating back some 40,000 years.

Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.

A colorful and enigmatic cemetery in the middle of nowhere.

The village's cobblestone streets are lined with shops displaying exquisite copper craftsmanship.

Local legend says that whoever burns down this 2,000-year-old tree will only have seven days to live.

In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff.

This mysterious but iconic tapered tower appears in many Azeri fairytales and legends.

Azerbaijani ghost town, decaying after a war left it an armed forces buffer zone.

Spring that emits water and fire at the same time is said to have remedial properties, and sparked its own religion.

The building's fluid, wavelike walls are a true feat of architectural ingenuity.

In the foothills of the lesser Caucasus, a centuries-old fortress still stands.

Foreign invaders almost left this lovely Caucasus palace alone—almost.