Places bartholomej Wants to Go

These massive moving sand dunes have swallowed an entire village and are still on the run.

This 1960's Soviet submarine in Peenemünde Harbor claims to be the largest submarine museum in the world.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

This lakeside bunker complex in Mamerki, Poland, housed the Supreme Military Command of Nazi Germany during World War II.

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

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

Mysteriously stacked storefront paths give this medieval British town an iconic style like none other.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

A 15-foot-tall statue of the head of the Sopranos family greets passengers at a train station in southeastern Lithuania.

Clusters of abandoned buildings hint at the facility's 144-year history with psychiatric health.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

This lurid German fountain plots the sad course of marriage from dating to death.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

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