Places drawingofsound Wants to Go

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

Taiwan's only erotically-themed restaurant brings the comedy back to sex and dinner.

In this tiny Iranian town playing on the roof isn't just encouraged, it's the only place to go.

This Paris art space celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that springs from abject poverty, especially in Africa.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

The ghost town that ended up on Ebay.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane.

When methane gas started seeping up from the ground, they picked up and moved the entire town.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

These quaint French houses dangle precariously over a precipice.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.

One of only two towns in Israel populated by Circassians, a sect of Sunni Muslims who are also devoted to Israeli military service.

Walled family complexes in Southern China.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

An isolated village literally built into the crevices and rock formations of a mountain.