Places Will Wants to Go

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

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

One of the world's smallest prisons boasts just two small cells.

An 800-year-old island castle in Guernsey's main harbor.

Underground hospital complex constructed by slave laborers during the German occupation of the Channel Islands.

The ruins of an abandoned medieval city where the last Byzantine emperor was crowned.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

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

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

A man-made island fort that has housed soldiers, scientists, and ravers.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

This enormous abandoned prison was once dubbed the "Bastille of Romania."

The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

This amazingly preserved Doric temple was abandoned before it was ever completed.

Built to ward off Napoleon's army, this city-sized abandoned Russian fort is now perfect for urban exploration.

An empty relic of the Moscow Olympics crumbles away in Estonia's capital.

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