Elbasan County, Albania
Bunkers of Albania
Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Elbasan County, Albania
Hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers crowd Albania long after the fall of Communism.
Tsuruoka, Japan
The self-mummified monks of Japan.
Naica, Mexico
A gargantuan crystal kingdom.
Barcelona, Spain
Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.
Djibouti
A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.
Shaharah, Yemen
One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
The hottest place on the planet.
Afar Zone 2, Ethiopia
Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.
Antarctica
The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.
Mexico
The enigmatic and seldom visited ruins of a Mayan city-state.
Zhangjiajie, China
For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.
Fars Province, Iran
The palace of the King of Kings, burned by Alexander the Great.
King George Island, Antarctica
Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.
Antarctica
One of the world's southernmost bars.
Heuvelland, Belgium
A Cold War command center is hidden under an idyllic countryside.
Valentine, Texas
A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.
Mayer, Arizona
An urban laboratory.
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Philippines
An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
Caue, São Tomé and Príncipe
Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.
Namibia
The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.