Places bluceleste87 Wants to Go

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Scattered ruins and a tiny cemetery are all that remain of a failed attempt to colonize the inhospitable Desolate Islands.

A hill carving of the legendary dragon that terrorized the village of Bures in the Middle Ages.

Before building her own tombstone, an untrained artist created a concrete menagerie in her garden.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

An unassuming house in Wisconsin hides a transient artist’s magnum opus.

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

A fitting tribute to a beloved local boxing coach that's produced four world champions.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

The eclectic home of a leading Turkish architect is a gorgeous piece of eye candy.

No one is sure why this mysterious tradition started.

A copy of the brutal decapitation device that predated the French Guillotine by about 200 years.

A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

The writer took refuge in this home in Southern France for the last 17 years of his life.

One of the bloodiest and most important battles in Japanese history is recreated with kitschy concrete statues.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

The final resting place of a celebrated First Nations man who traveled through England with a snake oil salesman.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

Spirits from these lakes are said to produce the local weather and odd phenomena as they bicker between themselves.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.