Places tobywatfa Wants to Go

Geometry and mystery come together in an epic show of octagonal masonry.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

An abandoned Santa park is as far as this proposed theme park kingdom got toward completion.

This "Little Finland" started as a Finnish utopian society in Eastern Brazil.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A tower-like theater in the Swiss Alps built to withstand the high winds and avalanches of the mountain pass.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

Traversing steep Alpine slopes, this engineering marvel is one of the longest and highest funiculars in the world.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

A living art gallery painted on a canvas of Monterey pine trees.

18th century opera in its original splendor.

The internet as provided by a James Bond villain.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

The second oldest anatomical theater is housed in a museum of curiosities.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

The longest and tallest aqueduct in Britain can actually be sailed across.

A rotting air force base is now home to rare birds and scarce plants.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.