Places saskiabender Wants to Go

From Austrians to Nazis to Soviets, this historic Budapest fortress has a history as complex as the city itself.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.

A New York–based physician returned home to Spain to build his own elaborate monument to Christopher Columbus.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

This abandoned mansion has a window for every day of the year, and is a temple for ghost hunters.

Beneath an ancient wishing tree lies an underground chapel with 12th-century frescoes and catacombs dedicated to a lady saint.

This sea stack in Cyprus is traditionally seen as the birthplace of the goddess Aphrodite.

This no man's land slicing through the island is strewn with abandoned relics of another time.

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

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Thousands of well-dressed mummies below a monastery.

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

A massive cave once a secret military base is now home to thousands of bats.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

After a 2004 tsunami, this stranded boat was left in place.