Places cyriellegiger Wants to Go

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

This small canyon is home to a treasure trove of geological oddities.

A collection of Lenin busts and other Soviet Era statues sit idly behind the Semipalatinsk Hotel.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

An entertainment center in a huge transparent tent.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.