Places danieldixon Wants to Go

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

Thirteen sculptures in central Moscow graphically depicting vices of the modern world.

Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

A network of ancient Egyptian tombs built into the cliff face along the Nile.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

Standing atop 2nd-century Roman ruins, this church is one of the oldest and most iconic in Old Cairo.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.