Places natbikes Wants to Go

Some 10,000 works of ancient rock art cover these volcanic basalt outcrops near the Gila River.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Abandoned bridge hidden deep in the San Gabriel Mountains.

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

This museum explores the history of the book, from scrolls to mass-produced objects through tools, stories, and massive cast-iron binding machinery (some of it operational).

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

Bill Murray bowled three straight strikes here at Reno's "Taj Mahal of Tenpins."

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

The Belgian library displays burned books that were salvaged from the fires of both world wars.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

What once sat in the world’s spotlight is today a largely disused ghost complex.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

A giant desert bird that once swung music fans at Coachella now has a home in a nearby traffic circle.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.