Places CZhukov Wants to Go

Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

In the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, this marker marks the severe haven of War Kangaroos that once roamed here in the fictional parallel world of Kcymaerxthaere.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

The Chinese have long been excellent at the art of copying, but this epic replica takes the biscuit.

A replica of the Statue of Liberty watches over the tomb of 72 Chinese revolutionaries.

Massive fortified towers blend North American and Chinese architecture.

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

350-foot-high emperor faces in China's Yellow River valley.

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.

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

Walled family complexes in Southern China.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.