Places Vrielinkie Wants to Go

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

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

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

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

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

The abandoned ruins of a failed resort hide on this verdant, picture-perfect island.

An abandoned beach resort in Normandy reclaimed by artists.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

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

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

A self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state on a tiny bit of disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.