Places jcommerford Wants to Go

A thriving surf community exists in relative remoteness along the former boundary between North and South Korea.

These colorful French islands spent a stint bootlegging booze during American Prohibition.

A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.

Robot jockeys ride their humped mounts to victory as part of a 21st-century twist on an ancient desert sport.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

A hotly contested micro-nation off the coast of Montserrat.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

Strolling through these vintage locomotives offers a surprising amount of insight into the history of Kenya.

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

If you've ever wanted to learn about the history of Asian fish balls, this Taiwanese museum has you covered.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

Marikina's record-breaking loafers.

The remains of this RAF plane and its crew were lost for decades, nearly engulfed by the Malaysian jungle.

Derelict airplane bodies serve as both home and income for three Thai families.

The tallest unclimbed mountain in the world remains poorly charted out of respect for local spirits.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

The largest falcon hospital in the world, caring for over 6,000 feathered patients every year.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

The world’s largest LED display, built over an F1 race circuit.

A gigantic collection of teeny, tiny books.

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

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Despite being tiny and rural this Georgian airport looks like a sci-fi boondoggle.