Places strangersigh Wants to Go

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

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

Don't bother sending any mail to this ghost town.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

In 1967, murder and mayhem disrupted the tranquility along this quiet stretch of Old Route 66.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

This nearly abandoned "company town" is a ghost of Puerto Rico's once-lucrative sugar industry.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.

Lived-in building, bedecked with an astonishing array of mirror mosaics.

A private collection of over 30,000 ancient and modern items showcasing the beauty of Islamic calligraphy.

Kuwait City's uniquely designed water towers look straight out of a retro sci-fi cityscape.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

A nearly abandoned 19th-century town on the Palouse.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

Wander among the ghostly ruins of an island where civilization flourished for thousands of years.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.