Places mcurtis Wants to Go

Underground monastery and fortress.

This old Soviet gas station is in perfect condition, one of the best-preserved mosaics in the country.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

This neon lit Georgian cave claims to hold the boulder Prometheus was chained to.

A fountain filled with golden statues, celebrating the the ancient kingdom of Colchis.

A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

The only residents of this abandoned housing development full of identical castles are stray cats and dogs.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

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

One of the most photographed locations in the entire city.

See how paper is made the old-fashioned way.

This remote church calls a tiny island its sanctuary.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

Bronzes and busts that once stood in the city's main squares are now relegated to a small hidden courtyard.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

In this town's main square resides a statue of none other than the 43rd President of the United States.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

A massive playground in the woods of Germany.

The first, and perhaps only, monument dedicated to Wikipedia.