Places etiennebara Wants to Go

This Rococo church is known as the most beautiful village church in the world, and does not disappoint.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

A gem in the middle of the desert that looks like it came straight from a fairytale.

An Anatolian immigrant created his own little paradise in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, made possible by the tensions of the Cold War.

A devilish mask still mocks a king’s rumored love nest across the street.

The highest mountain in Hokkaido was the setting for one of Japan’s strangest unsolved mysteries.

The Pamir Highway between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan takes a mere hour driving through a stretch of No Man’s Land.

A small Oslo museum dedicated to failed products, bad ideas, overhyped inventions, and the strange lessons hidden inside them.

Actually this "ancient" way of fishing may have started as recently as WW2

One of the most haunted places in London...or is it?

The purported midpoint in London from which all distances are measured has a tragic love story at its core

The bearded, helmeted head carved into this church tower may represent one of the architects who built it

These enigmatic sculptures have decorated the exterior of the House of the Seven Deadly Sins since the Middle Ages

The largest ancient temple in all of Polynesia

One of the largest wholesale markets in South Asia, bearing responsibility for nearly 60% of Dhaka’s daily vegetable supply.

A short walk up a small hill provides spectacular sunset and nighttime views of Kowloon

The largest rainforest in southern Africa was only discovered by conservationists thanks to Google Earth

Built on the side of a mountain, this once poor village has been turned into the "Santorini of Korea"

Beautiful Victorian mansion on Cardiff's outskirts was once the family home of a South Wales coal mining dynasty.

An international border crossing near the famous Iguazú Falls where bargain hunters and curious tourists stream between Brazil and Paraguay.

The only place to get cash in Antarctica.

A museum dedicated to the centuries-old cave dwellings that housed marginalized communities on the outskirts of the former capital of Muslim Spain.

This architectural oddity is an oasis of green on the outskirts of Valencia.

This fascinating and poignant museum chronicles every imaginable aspect of Spanish colonialism in the Americas.