Places tenzin35 Wants to Go

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

A nesting ground for four of the world’s seven marine turtle species, most of which are endangered.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

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

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

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.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

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

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

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.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

This remote fort on the Yukon River is a vestige of the wild Alaska gold rush.