Places HoboHillbilly Wants to Go

This ancient Silk Road outpost overlooking the Wakhan Valley is miraculously still standing.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

This picturesque round lake is said to be home to the legendary Mokèlé-mbèmbé.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

Micro-nation based around a nine-story high illegally built tower.

The world's first combination ski slope and power plant.

The art museum is decorated with creatively remodeled pre-Nazi swastikas.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

This modernist tower was saved by a fraternity with a 500-year-old penchant for shooting at wooden parrots.

A public display of random paleontology.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

A fairytale island floats in the middle of Italy's little-known Lake Orta.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

A stunning hermit's shrine on a steep rocky spur in Northern Italy.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

A line of abandoned, alien-like fortresses dot the mountains of North Italy.