Places alessandralee Wants to Go

Structure built from the skulls of vanquished foes.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

Elaborate patterns adorn the city's disappearing traditional architecture.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A Belgian self-built tower inspired by the Bible and ancient civilizations.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.