Places drawingofsound Wants to Go

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

The world's tallest slum.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

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