Places jeffprahl Wants to Go

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

The bronzed skull of a beheaded traitor was affixed to the city gate in the 17th century.

The building's fluid, wavelike walls are a true feat of architectural ingenuity.

A unique museum dedicated to culture and artistry of carpet weaving.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

A modern tower, symbolizing the legend of a golden egg on top of the tree of life.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

An entertainment center in a huge transparent tent.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

The supreme shrine of the state.

Booksellers and public artworks fill this vibrant promenade along the disused railroad tracks.

Collected from all around Seoul, thousands of secondhand books create this photogenic tunnel.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

This abandoned prison is now a museum chronicling the oppression of political prisoners in the not-so-distant past.

A waste incinerator with a restaurant on its chimney.

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

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

Valletta’s outdoor theatre stands within the ruins of a 19th-century opera house.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

Burial grounds for more than 1,000 bodies deep under the modern town of Rabat.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'