Places riche103 Wants to Go

This ruin in a suburban park may be the place where Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" was first performed.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

These ruins are a hidden gem, complete with fantastic views over the cliff edge.

This abandoned convent keeps the tomb of a legendary beheaded princess.

The haunting beauty of this little-visited wreck makes it a true hidden treasure.

A staggering number of rock carvings in an abandoned quarry.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The decaying remains of a once-luxurious Soviet spa town.

This nearly abandoned "company town" is a ghost of Puerto Rico's once-lucrative sugar industry.

An abandoned bell tower in the middle of nowhere is the last testimony of a forgotten medieval village.

An abandoned 17th-century baroque hunting lodge with a wonderfully strange architectural plan.

A partial tunnel blasted into a steep ridge is all that remains of a failed railway across Arizona.

This spectacular bridge is part of an abandoned train line that once connected Mallorcan capital to the southeastern coast.

Stare out over the lagoon and beyond from this 10th-century campanile on the island where the city of Venice began.

This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

An abandoned swimming pool decays on the outskirts of Berlin.

The ruins of an abandoned church loom within a picturesque Ukranian village.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

The abandoned remains of this once-thriving hotel looms over the city, awaiting an uncertain future.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

The verdant mossy ruins of a Franciscan monastery lie in the remote Sintra hills awaiting exploration.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.