Places Fabeldyret Wants to Go

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

Art becomes an enchanting part of the environment at this wooded sculpture park.

The last fully functional fortress of Germany's World War II Atlantikwall.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

The biggest cave system in the Arabian Peninsula is home to a rare variety of blind fish.

This sculpture in Denmark presents Arnold Schwarzenegger embracing his own doppelgänger.

The childhood home of the author of Pelle the Conqueror.

If you dare visit this fort, fire-breathing hyenas might devour your camels.

Where artisans use centuries-old techniques to build traditional Arabian ships.

Take the most scenic fjord landscape in Norway and add dramatic red cliffs, warm clear water, and playful dolphins.

An imposing Omani fortress surrounded by date palm trees.

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.

In the garden of a Georgia museum, without any explanation, is a monumental head of the Communist icon.

Are these prehistoric metal pipes evidence of alien plumbers? Nope, but they are amazing nonetheless.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

Abandoned museum from the last days of Soviet domination, with a unique Brutalist design.

These excavated burials from the Tarim Basin are wrapped in mystery.

This under-visited temple is nestled within one of Shanghai's traditional shikumen-style residential blocks.

Thanks to a bit of wordplay, seven auspicious stone cats guard this ancient canalside street.

One of the world's largest malls has been almost completely empty since its opening.

The so-called "Richest Village In China" is either a model Communist town or a dystopian sham.