Places nickdrewe Wants to Go

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

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

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

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

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

The ancient ruins of an extinguished city amidst the bustle of a modern one.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

Padlocks cover this rickety footbridge with love.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

This abandoned Soviet circus is slowly being restored to its Communist-era glory.

There is a mouldering Jewish cemetery hidden away in the capital of Moldova.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

A huge stone pyramid built for fun.