Places Clur Wants to Go

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

The hottest place on the planet.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

A prized globe signed by Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh sits in the Brooklyn office of the American Geographical Society.

Thanks to a spelling mistake this bizarre beaver-tiger hybrid became the symbol of a Siberian town.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

Tirelessly maintained by a Wisconsin man named JFK.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.