Places riche103 Wants to Go

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

Buried next to Pompeii, this lesser-known Roman villa was the opulent vacation home of Emperor Nero's wife.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Built during the Scottish boom in the oil industry, the village was never inhabited.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

In the land of the Light Brigade stands a testament to the Cold War.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.