Places umweber5 Wants to Go

Replicas of Apollo's leonine stone guard cats still line a sacred row in Greece.

Overlooking the harbor is a beautiful neglected mansion guarded by two Egyptian sphinxes.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

Beautiful carved tunnels.

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.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.