Places iellwen Wants to Go

This network of conjoined cellars was riddled with traps and supposedly allowed the townspeople to pretend their homes were deserted.

Legend says this cave housed a 16th-century cannibal and his family of 48.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Hidden beneath a bridge, this waterfall is known for the large amounts of graffiti painted on its base.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

This underfoot portrait is the work of a disgruntled painter inspired by a tragic poem.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

"All Mountains - All The Time."

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

One of the largest museums in Ukraine remembers the story of the German-Soviet War in iconic, brutalist style.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

Romania's only crater lake with water as pure as if distilled.

One of the oldest churches in Romania is believed to have been built on the site of a pagan temple.