Places dbone Wants to Go

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

In a country where driving from one town to another is literally impossible, this small stretch of gravel is a remarkable feat.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A memorial to the thousands of Turkmen soldiers and civilians who died in a bloody 1881 battle.

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

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

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

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

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

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

According to myth, there's a bloody explanation for the beautiful bright red color of this rock formation set amidst alpine vegetation.