Places bfoeldesi Wants to Go

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

Welded sphere dropped from space.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

The burial grounds of a Chinese eunuch who served his way into the highest levels of Imperial government.

Beijing's version of Disneyland, completely abandoned, mostly destroyed.

Beijing's expansive subterranean hiding spot now crumbles away as a tourist destination.

Urine-soaked Chinese eggs.

Natives of this mud-brick desert village use an ancient irrigation system to grow sweet, seedless grapes.

A museum and memorial built amid the rubble of a town obliterated by nature.

The ancient remains of this natural fortress can still be found along the Silk Road looking surprisingly preserved.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

Stone shrouds of Prince Liu Sheng and Princess Dou Wan of the Han Dynasty, created to preserve their flesh for eternity.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

China's beehive-shaped pyramids house the remains of a lost kingdom.

An impactful museum ensures notorious war crimes disguised as "medical experimentation" won't soon be forgotten.

No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth.

Walled family complexes in Southern China.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

The world's largest statue of Mao Zedong looks out over the city where he discovered Communism.

It seems that the residents of of this megalopolis suddenly vanished, but they were never actually there.

An out-of-place slice of France, smack in the middle of Shanghai.