Places Akusaru Wants to Go

4,000 monkeys used for medical testing on an island off of South Carolina.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

This Soviet-era "closed town" was a top secret uranium producer often left off of maps.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

A plaque marks the house in Stockholm where the French philosopher René Descartes lived up until his death.

A tombstone on the grounds of the royal castle marks the burial site of a Swedish king's beloved dog.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

Complete town of 5,000 living out at sea on the world's first offshore oil platform.

Azerbaijani ghost town, decaying after a war left it an armed forces buffer zone.

Spring that emits water and fire at the same time is said to have remedial properties, and sparked its own religion.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

Resonant stone, that has been played since prehistoric times.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

This abandoned urban warfare facility is a dream come true for airsoft and paintball enthusiasts.

Hidden in plain sight, Sweden's official ordnance datum is now abandoned.

This secret facility trained seals for the Swedish navy during the Second World War.

An abandoned, deteriorating tuberculosis hospital from the turn of the 20th century.

Sweden's southernmost prehistoric rock art is hidden just outside Gothenburg.

An ornate Thai pavilion in the middle of Sweden.