Places puzzles Wants to Go

These strikingly barren, rolling red hills were caused by bad farming practices.

The world's only flying boat museum honors a small Irish village that sent 20th-century aviation to new heights.

A retired military stronghold on the rolling green coast of Donegal.

You can see three Irish counties from this Neolithic hillside fort, once the seat of the Kingdom of Ailech.

Achill's most recently abandoned village dates back to to the Age of Enlightenment.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

A rocky Irish outcropping with a history of wealth, conflict, and ruin.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

The only town in the world with two exclamation points in its name.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Creaky dinosaurs grow in the backroads of Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

Cliffs that hold fossils, including the earliest known reptile, dating back more than 300 million years.

A miniature city, once ruled by the Queen of the Netherlands.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

A Bulgarian monument to Russia's role in World War II is constantly being painted in pop culture protest.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.