Places positivelypossessed Wants to Go

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

Tucked away on an empty wooded lot in suburban Oklahoma City lie the remnants of an abandoned circus camp.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

The ruins of a 19th century shelter run by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The only way to visit this old resort hotel is with scuba gear.

Portland had a unique approach to Cold War-era protections.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

Forgotten under the construction of a new urban roadway is a small, abandoned part of town.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.