Places riche103 Wants to Go

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

The one-time stronghold of the noble Douglas family, now home to ghost sightings and nesting birds.

The ruins of the second of three churches dedicated to the saint in a touristic Scottish town.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

The ruined remains of the airport Claus von Stauffenberg departed in his failed attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

A statue of Vladimir Illyich Lenin guards this abandoned building in the "Forbidden City."

This remote Moravian mission brought Christianity—as well as devastation—to the Inuit people.

These ancient ruins were the final resting place of King Henry II's mistress.

An abandoned tuberculosis hospital moulders on into an uncertain future.

An abandoned masterpiece of Soviet Brutalist architecture.

An abandoned Jewish sanatorium is tucked within the woods of Poland.

It was meant to help transport wounded soldiers to a secret underground hospital.

The ruins of Vancouver's abandoned heritage railway.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

The abandoned transportation hub hides within the Glasgow attraction it once served.

This set of mysterious petroglyphs in the Peruvian jungle could shed light on centuries-old activities in the region.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

The ruins of an abbey believed to have been founded by Charlemagne in the 9th century.

The ruins of an abandoned church mingle with the graves at Oaxaca’s General Cemetery.

The marshy karst plain has reclaimed this beautiful 17th-century church.

A semi-abandoned village destroyed by U.S. bombings during World War II dominates the valley of Turano.

The world's first purpose-built indoor shopping mall opened in Sweden in 1955.