Places Oubliette Wants to Go

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

An underground nightclub helped spark a "Singing Revolution."

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

Spend your honeymoon where the Devil had his wedding.

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

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

This enormous abstract sculpture is part jungle gym, part elaborate noise-making machine.

Some of the best-preserved specimens of the monumental medieval tombstones found throughout Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This ironic war memorial thumbs its nose at a campaign of inedible humanitarian aid food products.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

This bridge uses an inverted bowstring truss and is believed to be the only of its kind in the United States.

Neoclassical Revival mansion and set of horror cult classic Phantasm.

A serene public space nestled within the remains of Glasgow’s Victorian maternity hospital

Formerly known as the Malay Quarter, Bo Kaap is a colorfully-painted suburb located in the “Mother City” of South Africa.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

A massive clementine marks the center of town in the citrus city of Berkane.

Known to backpackers as the "Steps of Doom," this walkway carved into the side of a seaside cliff leads to the Roman Tombs.

Writers such as Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, and Samuel Beckett frequented this Tangier bookstore.