Places Nyssa Wants to Go

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.

Over 300 wood sculptures depicting characters from Slavic, Greek and Western folk tales fill this magical garden.

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

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

A Romanesque tower appears when water levels drop.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

In the Hugging Tree Forest, lingonberry marshmallows, hot chocolates, and the best campfire lattes north of the Arctic Circle come to you.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

An underwater city for the dead.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.