Places PauI Wants to Go

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

This partially buried wreck is one of the most complete of its kind but is only revealed when the sea allows.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

One of the most popular attractions in the small resort town of Kabardinka.

The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.