Places AlexOnAdventure Wants to Go

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

A musical instrument played by the sea.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

Legend has it fairies gathered at the site of this medieval castle.

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

Croatia's "hairy stone" fortress is one of the most well preserved Istrian castles.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

When Croatia became independent of Yugoslavia, the splintering governments left behind these concrete tunnels.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.