Places CZhukov Wants to Go

From grand battles to daily life, this Spanish museum offers a view of world history in miniature.

Walk into an underground archeological dig, the site of the Roman Forum that was once the center of Valencia.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

A hilltop collection of crosses remembering the hundreds of Argentine troops who fell during the Falklands War.

This weekly market in the remote oasis city of Hotan still has the atmosphere of the old Silk Road.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

When you've got to go, you've got to go.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

This hidden art nouveau gem was designed by an architect in search of a national style.

You'll find rocket launchers, not rollercoasters, at Russia's “military Disneyland.”

This statue of a falling man commemorates a teenage martyr of the Hungarian Revolution.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

These homes carved into the mountains seem to defy the laws of nature.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.

Ferdinand Magellan dubbed the world's largest water village the "Venice of the East."

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

A graveyard of old and rare planes that once were the glory of Persian aviation.