Places adrianbee Wants to Go

Unique museum with a dizzying array of collectibles, from corkscrews to typewriters and much more.

An abandoned pasta factory in the centre of Bucharest, once home to Bulgarian revolutionaries and a hub of crime.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

This fortress dates back to the 6th century and is also the site of a controversial abandoned restoration project.

A historical puzzle lies at the origins of this structure.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

A Red Cross memorial museum at the site of the Niš concentration camp that operated for four eventful years during World War II.

Stay in your own little bubble.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

A remote island settlement off the coast of Tanzania is a storied archaeological site with an ancient past.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

The culture that built these Tanzanian ruins displayed advanced knowledge of irrigation technology before mysteriously disappearing.