Places piegem Wants to Go

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

A copy of the Statue of Liberty greets visitors to the birthplace of Auguste Bartholdi.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

This abandoned prison was so notorious that its name has become a metaphor throughout Albania.

Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.

Gigantic water vessel, permanently grounded in Southern Albania.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

These dilapidated planes are now a canvas for graffiti artists.

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

UNESCO-protected ancient burial ground.

The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.

Rebuilt several decades ago, its striking murals prevent it from being reconsecrated as a church.

Once the legendary capital of the Dacian Kingdom, this city has been reduced to mere ruins.

A chemical factory damaged by two earthquakes and an explosion that became abandoned after bankruptcy.

Locals believe this abandoned ruin on the outskirts of Bucharest is haunted.

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

The metal leaves on this tree are engraved with the names of Holocaust victims.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

One of Hungary's most influential places of learning is also home to one of the world's most beautiful libraries.

An unusual cave filled with rare alien-looking aragonite formations.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

A quirky monument to the 49th parallel in downtown Prešov, Slovakia.