Places h2ozhang Wants to Go

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

A fascinating aviation museum where you can chat with the veterans who once flew the aircraft on display.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

If you’ve ever seen a picture of Machu Picchu, then you’ve seen a picture of Huayna Picchu—you just didn’t realize it.

This museum’s collection includes rescued birds, fine art, and a collection of shrunken heads.

Building this tragically pointless stone barrier cost the lives of the prisoners made to build it.

A three-tiered waterfall plummets from a mountain cave with amazing views over the countryside.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

An abandoned company town and cement factory outside of Bogotá, now haunted by ghosts and scofflaws.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

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

This extensive collection of vintage Soviet cars is the only one of its kind in the Caucasus.