Tokyo, Japan
Mohri Garden Pond
An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Tokyo, Japan
An ordinary pond with fish from out of this world.
Peru
These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.
Cape Charles, Virginia
Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.
Lemnos, Greece
An alien landscape on the banks of the Aegean Sea.
Mayfield, Kentucky
Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.
Tallahassee, Florida
The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.
Corfu, Greece
The ghost town where the villagers refuse to leave.
Diamer District, Pakistan
A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.
Jordan
A bathhouse from the second Islamic Caliphate decorated with frescoes of constellations, pleasure gardens, and naked ladies.
Ranikay, Pakistan
A tower built by an emperor for an antelope.
Stockholm, Sweden
This homeless brass fox tugs at your heartstrings from the foot of a Stockholm bridge.
Abilene, Kansas
A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.
Francois Peron National Park, Australia
This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.
Lasithi, Greece
This little Greek plateau is home to thousands of rustic, white-sailed windmills.
Phumi Khna Rôngvoas, Cambodia
This Cambodian riverbed is covered in ancient Hindu carvings both above and below the waters.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Thessaloniki, Greece
This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.
San Andres de Giles, Argentina
Crumbling crypts and overgrown graves rise just out of arm's reach in this forgotten Buenos Aires graveyard.
Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina
The remains of the last Bosnian fortress to fall to the Ottomans are still standing.
Lee, Florida
This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.
Aigues-Mortes, France
This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.
Rookwood, Australia
The largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere.