Places evansjennifer Wants to Go

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

The largest catacomb system in the world.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Witness traditional silk production in the Uzbek city that's been a hub of sericulture for over a thousand years.

One of the most ethnically diverse spots on the planet.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

Legends, sculptures, and unique tombs can be seen lurking in these connected cemeteries.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Welsh literary history is preserved in the delicate pages of these medieval manuscripts.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

One of the greatest movie directors of all time lived and worked in this London flat from 1926 to 1939.

A city block packed with whimsical sculptures that seem to be plucked from a tiled fantasy world.