Places tureklis Wants to Go

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

This abandoned coliseum was intended to be a grand Nazi rallying ground before it was halted at the end of the war.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

A tiny island home to a former English slave fort.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

The experimental test tracks of a retro-futuristic monorail still stand in the French countryside.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

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

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.