Places mascall Wants to Go

An ancient Roman theatre restored to its former glory in the Spanish city of Cartegena.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

This religious complex carved into a cliff is steeped in legends of miraculous stags and the Holy Grail.

Abandoned Nazi train station turned underground astroparticle laboratory.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

The gutted remains of this Estonian mansion are a monument to a tragic love.

A small monument in Lithuania marks the geographic center of Europe—or at least one of the claimants.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

A memorial to the murdered Jews of Kaunas.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.

Guests become prisoners on a visit to Latvian prison.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

Launch site for nuclear war against Western Europe.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

The widest waterfall in Europe is a natural wonder and one of the only places where fish are caught in the air.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.