Places mrswaggily Wants to Go

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.

The second-largest Jewish temple in Bulgaria was deserted after World War II, seized by the communist government and then abandoned again.

An ancient Thracian city where fire rituals were practiced on the largest cult altar in Southeast Europe.

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

A unique walk through hundreds of cactus plants, including some that stretch over 8 feet tall.

Kitschy horror displays now fill the house where some very real serial killing took place.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

The development of this cliffside waterpark is representative of Mexico's history of co-op tourism developments.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

A uniquely robust and historic look at Mexico's omnipresent dance with Death.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.