Places riche103 Wants to Go

A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Prypiat, now long-abandoned.

The crumbling remains of a 19th-century textile factory.

One of the few Cold War-era bases with many of its original structures still standing.

Designed by famed 20th-century architect Cass Gilbert, the future of this abandoned 1908 rail station is currently in limbo.

What was once a summer home next to a waterfall has now become littered with graffiti and children in swimsuits.

A century-old miner's quarters turned mansion.

Historic seaside park featuring explorable, abandoned military structures.

A settlement that was stopped in the middle of construction, leaving behind paved roads, curbs, light poles, a stormwater drainage system, and even a basketball court, but no houses.

Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.

After the nearby mercury mine shut down, this town was abandoned and declared a Superfund site.

This former wildlife sanctuary is being transformed into an art park.

The remnants of a luxurious resort that saw its peak in the 1970s and 1980s has been abandoned since 2009, leaving behind the wreckage of both the hotel and a beautiful ice skating rink.

An Art Deco Icarus statue adorns this abandoned gem of Yugoslav Modernist architecture.

An abandoned mining complex in Serra do Gerês.

In Spain, the ruins of a Roman military camp sit along a flooded section of a river.

The ruins of the second-largest circus school in the world.

An abandoned 6th-century monastery features a medieval map of the known world.

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

The Grand Canyon’s original airport, which once welcomed pilots like Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, lies abandoned.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

All that remains of this former mill town is a ranger station and some crumbling buildings.

In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

Once home to more than 50 displays of freshwater fish.

Home to the abandoned Tioronda Hat Works Factory, this park is a combination of woodlands and marshlands.