Places Flaneurgh Wants to Go

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

One of the world's oldest olive trees, thought to be over 2,000 years old.

This abandoned secret city is a crumbling wonderland of Soviet ruins.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

Former military fort and site of untold horrors during WWII, this island may become the Adriatic's next luxury resort.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

Yugoslavia's biggest underground airport lies in ruins.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

Unfinished monument to peace between Turkey and Armenia, long divided by a dispute over genocide.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

Even drowned in an ocean of toxic waste, the remnants of this Romanian village stand tall.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.