Places riche103 Wants to Go

On the coast of Sardinia, a once-great mining village is finding new life as a coastal resort town.

An eerie gravel road full of shards of red bricks leads to the ruins of a deserted factory.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

The world's first cruise ship-shaped hotel is perched atop a cliff.

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

The forgotten remnants of a land-to-sea cable car that was once unique in the world.

An abandoned anti-smuggling station decays along the boundary between Portugal and Spain.

This grand hydraulic installation has provided water for townspeople since the Middle Ages.

The best-preserved Roman small town in North Africa.

An ancient burial ground believed to have been used for ritual sacrifice.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

Some believe this abandoned Brutalist masterpiece inspired George Lucas's Sandcrawler.

This impressive system of tanks was used to store drinking water as long as 2,000 years ago.

An enchanting natural wonder in Puerto Rico's Camuy River Park.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A beautiful, abandoned farming headquarters overtaken by nature and graffiti.

These ruins of a medieval church are full of architectural mysteries.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.