Places saskiabender Wants to Go

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

The wreck of a World War II cargo ship has become an unintentional time capsule at the bottom of the Red Sea.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

Marie Antoinette and Napoleon Bonaparte were fans of this 200-year-old French chocolatier.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A subterranean shelter remains intact under a busy Paris railway station.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This dreamy street will transport you to wintertime in Victorian England.

Hidden on the urban banks of a Manchester river are a series of abandoned waterside industrial sites.

A relic of the Cold War tucked away in the forested hills above Bratislava.

Football field-sized microalgae production tanks on the Hawaiian coast create a stunning view from space.

This former luxury resort in Kaua'i is now an abandoned relic.