Places Weifinder Wants to Go

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

This mining town boomed in the Atomic Age when uranium was gold, only to be abandoned when the industry collapsed.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

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

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

The most unloved grain elevator in Brooklyn was a “Magnificent Mistake.”

Secret Manor, a house full of legends, the least of which is the haunting of long-deceased ladies of pleasure.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A Franco-era dam flooded (almost) everyone out of this centuries-old Aragonese town.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

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

The once-grand remains of this resort are slowly turning into the strange ruins of the future.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.