Places anthonyjp Wants to Go

In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff.

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

Tower with a double-helix spiral, adorned with letters of the Georgian alphabet.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

A museum glorifying the life of Stalin, located in the city of his birth.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

A railway bridge leading nowhere stands lonely in the middle of a meadow.

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

A tiny traditional village keeps an ancient method of beekeeping alive.

What almost started out as a spite house became an eccentric's found object masterpiece.

You would never guess that before World War II this lonely field was a bustling German city.

Open-air museum with a large collection of Soviet-era statues.

Museum deep in the catacombs of St. Michael the Archangel Church is explored by touch, sound, and smell.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.

Hundreds of unusual wheel crosses poke above the earth in this small Estonian cemetery.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

Abandoned Soviet base once stocked with short and medium range missiles pointed at western Europe.

The labyrinthine home of the National Archives of Estonia is an experimental blend of architecture, art, and history.

This medieval Estonian tower provides access to a series of tunnels that have been home to soldiers, punks, and fine art.