Places clarkwalkup Wants to Go

Sample specialties from Xinjiang at this Shinjuku neighborhood gem.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

A unique gallery chronicles the losers of American presidential history.

This 100-foot tall bluff located in the western plains of Kansas overlooks a massive reservoir.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

A magnificent, glittering building tucked into a tiny Bulgarian mountain town.

A mountain pass in Bulgaria's Balkan Mountains was the site of four historic battles.

A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.

A neo-Gothic church built to thank God for saving the Emperor of Austria from an assassination.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

On the shores of Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Kul Lake, a family cooks a feast that tells the sad tale of a people's exile.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

This Soviet statue is based on a piece of propaganda that's been elevated to national myth.

The world's second-tallest flagpole stands proud despite dropping rank.

A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.