Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

A cave in southern Italy adorned with thousand-year-old Biblical frescoes existed in obscurity until fairly recently.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

A whale's jawbone and a malfunctioning harpoon welcome you to the village of Bragar and its lore.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

The ruins of a medieval seminary some say is the oldest university site in Scotland.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

FIFA deemed this isolated field one of the most remarkable places to play the sport.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

The neighborhood church casts a breast-shaped shadow that locals have come to call the “two o’clock titty.”

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

This ominously named New Jersey street seems to be attracting over-the-top legends of its own making.

Local lore claims this park is named after a young woman who jumped off a cliff.

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.