Places Blindcolour Wants to Go

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

The mountaintop inspiration for Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose."

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

Is it an island or a volcano? That question probably explains why it's uninhabited.

A once-stately trading fort is now a ruin slowly being consumed by the sea.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

A school teacher's massive and terrifying self-built castle.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

A former squatter's paradise outside Prague.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

These century-old beehive-shaped kilns were built to produce charcoal for nearby mines.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

A miniature Italianate fantasy village on the coast of Wales and the set of ITC classic "The Prisoner."

A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.

While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.

The only pollutant in the clear blue water is sunscreen.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

Monastery, army base, and infamous Soviet Gulag in the far Russian north.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.