Places semken Wants to Go

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

The beehive-like buildings of this abandoned resort reside near the border of Mauritania and Senegal.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

Whisper secrets in a busy station only to be heard on the other side of this acoustic arch.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

This former open-pit manganese mine is now a massive graffiti canvas.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The bridge continues the legacy of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policy.

Settled by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1859, this abandoned frontier town has appeared in several films.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.