Places natxosoler Wants to Go

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

Crawling into this primordial cave may feel disconcertingly familiar.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

This tiny little pool is said to be home to a malicious mermaid named Jenny Greenteeth.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

This 16th-century watchtower once defended Spain's Atlantic coast from pirates.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.

A remote and picturesque volcano nestled inside another volcano.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.