Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

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

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

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

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

Tiring of digging out the door to this church for every service, it was eventually abandoned to the sands.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Nestled amid the peaks and lochs of the Scottish Highlands, this inn and pub has played host to outlaws and ghosts.

Common all over Japan, kōbans are small community police boxes, and now one is guarding one of L.A.’s megamalls.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.