Places DrSavoy Wants to Go

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

One of the best collections of wax anatomical models in the world.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Closed for decades, this strange symbol of Japan's Expo '70 has finally opened its psychedelic insides to the public.

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

Have a soak at this retro bathhouse, where you will find Japan's first electric bath, tiling from Spain, and wood carvings representing the Japanese invasion of Manchuria.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

These 20-foot jaw bones honor a time when the leviathan bones were a sign that whalers survived the hunt.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

A whale's jawbone and a malfunctioning harpoon welcome you to the village of Bragar and its lore.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

This Himalayan airport provides one of the most difficult landings in the world.

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

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

This medieval mountain town is also known as the "Village of Streams."

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.