Places watsonswanderlust Wants to Go

Get a privileged view over Mexico City's Historic Center from a terrace right in its heart.

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

An airy Art Deco space devoted to the weird and wonderful folk art traditions of Mexico.

The burial place of some of Mexico's most prominent residents is full of macabre stories and hidden masonic symbols.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

A church dedicated to the Mexican skeleton saint.

66,000 pieces of art, donated by one of the world's richest men.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

Despite what a Thai tourism board might want you to think, this white-sand beach is in fact located on a Scottish island.

Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

The farthest northwesterly point of the British mainland is one of the most remote places in the Scottish Highlands.

This former World War II artillery defense site was built to guard the industrial city of Glasgow.

This waterfall is one of the most spectacular natural features in the Scottish Lowlands.

Vibrant paintings stretch across 600 feet of derelict railway.

The remains of an anti-aircraft battery from World War II look out over Glasgow.

An icon of the Battle of Britain is frozen in flight in a grand Victorian museum.

The abandoned transportation hub hides within the Glasgow attraction it once served.

A former special storage facility for documents during the Cold War.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

A top secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath a Latvian spa facility is now open for tours.