Places Flaneurgh Wants to Go

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

An abandoned resort in North Macedonia is a relic from the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The pyramid and dome deep inside the Dzūkija forest are believed to channel divine energy.

An unusual bronze bus shelter is actually an art installation commenting on the city's history with the Nazi party.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

A micro-communist utopia in Spain with no police, no mortgages and full employment.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

'The Letters of Utrecht' lays out a ribbon of poetry one letter at a time, with no final verse in sight.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

A sculpture of the iconic East German car on four legs is a tribute to those who traveled to Prague seeking asylum.

An abandoned brutalist monument whose history has been lost to the ages.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

A national collection of Communist-era musical posters.

This peculiar border irregularity is the only way to legally enter Russia without a visa.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.