Places heianman Wants to Go

Africa's fourth longest river originates from a burbling spring in a secluded stretch of woods.

This former power station is now a museum dedicated to the region's coal-producing history.

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

Explore an eerie, abandoned medieval citadel.

A public center dedicated to showcasing and conserving the enormous shaggy Poitou donkey.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

The interior of this church has been turned into a memorial to locals who died in Croatia's Homeland War.

The local club's soccer field is practically surrounded by UNESCO-protected monuments.

This unique structure allowed boats to bypass underwater mine barriers in the channel to enter the harbor.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

One of the holiest places in the region, devotees come to Tirta Empul to bathe in the holy spring water.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

The remains of a remote village that once housed over 1,200 dam workers and their families.

The ruins of an unfinished explosives factory can be found while taking a gentle stroll through a Manx glen.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.