Places riche103 Wants to Go

These abandoned ruins in the middle of Jaffna have withstood centuries of tumultuous power struggles.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This striking fort on the Maginot Line looks just as it did after being destroyed in the Fall of France.

A forgotten monument to Yugoslavian freedom.

A decommissioned Naval base now rents itself out for people who want to blow stuff up.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

A hospital closed seemingly in the middle of operations, leaving behind fodder for horror films and ghost hunters.

An abandoned munitions factory with a shot tower continues to wage war on the surrounding environment.

This chest hospital with a dark, haunted past serves as a fitting set for horror films and a paradise for ghost hunters.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The remains of a town so thoroughly destroyed by French forces that the citizens simply left.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

The haunting concrete remains of a Nazi pebble crusher can still be found in this small French commune.

Cursed swimming pool left abandoned is now a favorite of filmmakers and ghost hunters.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

These recently uncovered walls are all that's left of Washington, D.C's first defense contractor.

A forgotten Cold War relic hidden in the outskirts of a Wisconsin city.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.