Places eosstar Wants to Go

Museum on French naval history, with magnificent figureheads, a historic diving suit, and a boat used by Napoleon.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

An indigenous take on European design creates a stunning visual overload.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

An industrial relic is now one of Europe's most staggering art spaces.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

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

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.