Places ulitsky Wants to Go

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

An abandoned Art Deco hotel nestled on the side of a wooded mountain.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

One of the world's richest men bought this former paper factory and transformed it into a mall.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This subterranean funicular is one of the world's smallest subways.

The enigmatic sculpture hides above an escalator in a Milan metro station.

A special area of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples is located inside a metro station.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.