Places riche103 Wants to Go

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

This tiny old water tower once doubled as a makeshift jail.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

This 17th-century Bhutanese monastery is ensconced in Buddhist legend.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Legends surround this natural rock formation that looks like a Moorish king wearing a crown.

The oldest warship in Europe is still afloat.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

The ruins of an unfinished explosives factory can be found while taking a gentle stroll through a Manx glen.

This strange building looks like a medieval fortress crashed into a 1960s Brutalist office block.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

A spooky juxtaposition of caves and graves gives this legend-filled cemetery a particularly haunting vibe.

An enormous Buddha peers through a gap in its ruined chamber.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

Small Chinese fishing village impeccably maintained for visitors.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.

This tiny island protects a number of rare bird species by only allowing visitors to set foot on the beach.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.