Places frankpoles Wants to Go

The longest hiking route on the island of Java leads to this inactive volcano.

A lonely memorial to the 107 victims of Pan Am Flight 812, which crashed in Bali in 1974.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

Take a few seconds to look at this abandoned, art-filled station as you pass by on the subway to Ueno.

Tell this pair of "love-inviting" cats in Ginza your romantic hopes.

Near the mouth of the Yodo River, this museum offers visitors six floors of hands-on learning about Osaka's raw sewage.

This quirky little private museum is home to more than a thousand stones, carved by nature, that resemble human faces.

Japanese company creates clone dolls that reside in the "uncanny valley."

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

Ruins of a former government building destroyed during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union.

A man-made island designed to look like a massive battleship.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

One of the largest public squares in the world, named after the former DPRK supreme leader.

This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.

The burial ground of two kings and a queen is now a calm city park in the middle of bustling Seoul.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.