Places bluceleste87 Wants to Go

Submerged busts of communist and socialist figures from the USSR.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

Creek water that starts here has a 50/50 chance of ending up in the Atlantic or the Pacific.

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

This Cold War–era underground city includes offices for Mao Zedong and Lin Biao.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.

For centuries, Germans have been dancing in trees.

3,000 family pets and military animals are buried in this London graveyard.

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

A small mountain at the crossroads of Turkey, Iraq, and Syria that some believe was the landing point of Noah's Ark.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

Remains of military submarines built in secret jungle factories by the Tamil guerrillas' naval wing.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

At nearly 1,000 feet long, this astonishing glass suspension bridge is one of the longest in the world.

This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.