Places FlyExpat Wants to Go

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

Museum dedicated to overthrowing the Soviets, complete with diorama of Soviets being beaten to death with shovels.

The last operating synagogue in Afghanistan is run by Zablon Simintov, the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.

What was once supposed to be the symbol of a shining Afghan future is now a bombed-out ruin.

Despite a history of destruction, this former citadel survives to document Afghanistan's oft overlooked history.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

This magnificent blue mosque in Afghanistan is surrounded by thousands of white doves.

This striking landscape in northern Vietnam contains both geological and archaeological wonders.

This Vietnamese bar doubles as a multistory labyrinth.

Massive sinkholes on a mountain in one of the most remote places in Venezuela.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

This mysterious abandoned fort looks like something pulled right from Arabian legend.

A small United Arab Emirates territory within an Omani enclave within the United Arab Emirates.

The cluster of igloo-like domes forms the remains of an ancient burial ground.