Places mascall Wants to Go

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.

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

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The world's first electric battery-powered submarine.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

This irregularly shaped sea fortress has defended not one but three different sovereign states.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

This historic abandoned train station looks like a stop for ghost trains.

This bridge is the first to be made entirely from iron, but designed like it was still made of wood.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.