Places riche103 Wants to Go

This ceremonial Mexican square looks as though it belongs in a science fiction movie.

England’s ancient oak tree has such an impressive girth, people have been hosting parties within the hollow trunk for centuries.

These enigmatic columns tower over the ruins of an ancient Toltec city.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

Nine centuries-old fortresses guard the walls of this medieval Romanian city.

This Ukranian fortress is one of the best-preserved medieval castles in Europe.

This 700-year-old structure is one of the most unique architectural and historic monuments in Gdańsk.

A Scottish manor with a history of mysterious fires, magic, and eccentric tales

These ruins witnessed the final gathering of the failed Jacobite Rebellion.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.

These crumbling Latvian forts make for some haunting seaside ruins.

An abandoned shopping gallery built during Fascist Italy tucked in the center of Palermo.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

The ruins of a 13th-century monastery that long served as a place of refuge from wars and raids.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.