Places rog18 Wants to Go

A long-forgotten Victorian swimming hole is still a fun spot for a dip.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

Some of the specimens on display at the Leiden University Medical Center have been helping educate physicians since the 17th century.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

This abandoned island off the Venetian coast has been a radical monastery, a political prison, and a secret Nazi base.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

An abandoned settlement originally established by British colonialists in the Andaman archipelago.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

This Canadian island is a veritable garden of decay with countless abandoned structures dotting the landscape.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.

Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.

Enjoy the waters of this half-moon-shaped natural pool surrounded by breathtaking scenery.