Places tommyjay Wants to Go

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

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

Ride a boat through this magnificent underground world, which now doubles as a theater.

This church carved into the rocks is full of enchanting stone statues.

Abandoned village in Sicily built during the agricultural reforms of Mussolini.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

Leveled by an earthquake, this Italian village is now preserved as a massive concrete art project.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

A crumbling mountain resort that looks like it was abandoned in an instant.

This marvelous work of outsider architecture is built into the cliffs of an Israeli beach.

This top secret Chinese military megaproject is the world’s largest human-made tunnel structure.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

A massive, abstract lookout tower providing a panoramic view of Prague.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The tunnel's elegant proportions keep you snug with no claustrophobia freak-out.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.