Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

A dormant lightning machine equal to all the power in Russia.

A Marxist summer camp full of fantastical statues lies tucked away and forgotten in the forests of Moscow.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Abandoned castle was once a grand example of Russian privilege, built exclusively to win a frivolous bet between noblemen.

Thanks to this small string of islands World War II still hasn't officially ended between Russia and Japan.

Is it an island or a volcano? That question probably explains why it's uninhabited.

Russia's own leaning tower was built on a tragic historical fable.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.