Places declanmar Wants to Go

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

Land that belongs to no nation.

The "Versailles of the Jungle" built by a dictator is now a decaying shadow of its hubristic grandeur.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

Jumping-off point for a climb up Mt. Everest is the most dangerous airport in the world.

Single runway interrupted by a busy road that cuts across its middle.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

The exorbitant price of paradise.

A symbol of Islam in oil-rich Brunei.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

Two geological phenomena in one precarious locale: a towering stone window, and a deep blue void.

This former Cyprus flight hub is now a crumbling, abandoned ghost complex.

Groups of prehistoric tombs that dot the mountains of northern Oman.

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.