Places educatorclaire Wants to Go

A 50-foot-tall statue of Jesus where a stairway transports the faithful into his body.

Iron Butterfly's personal collection of footwear.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.

Lunar landscape, a mud volcano and bizarre rock formations.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

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

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

One of the largest public squares in the world, named after the former DPRK supreme leader.

A former palace transformed into a mausoleum for North Korea's supreme leaders.

A highly symbolic tower in honor of Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung's personal philosophy.

A vast museum devoted to North Korea's victories against its imperialist enemies.

A giant bronze monument to Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il is one of the most sacred sites in North Korea.