Places nunne Wants to Go

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

What was once the largest NFL stadium.

One architect's organic, human-centric design has been fully realized in this alien art house.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

Giant, pink stuffed rabbit on an Italian mountain.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.