Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

This colorful palace is an oasis of calm amid the hustle and bustle of the Buriganga riverfront.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

Street artists transformed this abandoned industrial neighborhood into one of Europe's largest graffiti exhibitions.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

A hidden bathhouse in one of Stockholm's oldest and busiest neighborhoods is open to anyone who can find it.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

A well-preserved network of cavernous tunnels have spent silent centuries removing Toronto's waste.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

In this brilliant blue spring in Germany, legend has it that a sad mermaid learned to finally laugh.