Places riche103 Wants to Go

A great white whale sculpture now sits in the location where the remains of a prehistoric cetacean were found.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

This century-old cinema is complete with musical interludes and boasts a rare projection system.

This vintage gem is one of the oldest surviving purpose-built movie palaces in Scotland.

Designed in the Romanesque style, this structure was once a fortress monastery.

This tidal island, a sacred site in early English Christianity, was the target of a notable Viking invasion.

Explore an eerie, abandoned medieval citadel.

A palace-fortress ruin in Indonesia complete with legends of two magical tigers, eight bathing angels, and a wish-granting cannon.

On the outskirts of the small village, an abandoned grassy field glitters thanks to the white stones of an ancient structure.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

This elaborate stone bridge over the Neisse river has sat in pieces since 1945.

Built in a perfect square, this archaeological site is one of the largest and best preserved ancient fortifications in India.

These hilltop ruins of a forgotten Buddhist monastery flourished in Antiquity from trade with the Roman Empire.

All that remains of a sugar mill destroyed during the War of Independence of 1895.

After years of slow decline, a derelict Gothic castle is now being restored to life.

An abandoned pasta factory in the centre of Bucharest, once home to Bulgarian revolutionaries and a hub of crime.

Ireland's most northerly island is hauntingly beautiful. Its lighthouse was the last glimpse of home for many Irish emigrants bound for the U.S.