Places IrajV Wants to Go

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

Suffocating dogs was a common spectacle in the fumes of this noxious cave.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

Burbling away in refrigerators are 105 sourdough starters from around the world.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.

An unusual monument to a 19th-century circus star.

This 2,000-year-old tree inspired the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-bye Baby."

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

Most of Britain's gold reserve was secretly stashed here after the start of World War II.

The giant club-wielding wildman stands proud as the symbol of Swedish Lapland.

A 600-year-old mini shrine guarded by a sword-wielding knight hides in a crumbling cliff face.

Urine-soaked Chinese eggs.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

Half-eaten food on display at an English café.

This small window display is dedicated to the noble carrot.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

The largest bottled beer collection in the world holds over 22,000 unique beer bottles.

Central Europe's largest collection of mini-bottles is on display at this museum devoted to a bitter Hungarian liquor.

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

A giant wooden soda bottle pays homage to a distinctly British drink on the very spot where it was invented.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.