Places shatteredpools Wants to Go

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A hidden art gallery in an abandoned Warsaw fort.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

The ancient heart of Tunis is an enormous maze of narrow streets and alleyways.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

The world's longest outdoor covered escalator system transports commuters through Hong Kong's hilly terrain.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.