Places tsrzad Wants to Go

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.

The remains of a 12th-century chapter house in Golden Gate Park.

California's most comprehensive horticultural library.

This once bustling boomtown hotel is now the hottest spot in Nevada for ghost hunters.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

Resting on a hill overlooking the coast, these medieval ruins look completely deserted save for their restored chapel.

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

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.

The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.

A faithful reproduction of Al-Jazari's enormous water clock.

This mysterious abandoned fort looks like something pulled right from Arabian legend.

Feed it cash, get your very own gold bar.

The world’s largest LED display, built over an F1 race circuit.

The opulent car collection of an eccentric Sheikh housed in his own private pyramid.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

Incredible labyrinth of man made caves.