Places JonAkzar Wants to Go

Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

A mecca for India's Jains.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Local legends say that a giant who tried to destroy a nearby church lived in this rock cave.

The remains of a German plane still sit in the Norwegian wood where it crashed in 1942.

This strange pyramid is a unique feature of the Austrått Manor.

Once the scene of a young boy's home in revolt, this Norwegian island is now home to the world's first "ecological" prison.

The former home of Norway's greatest romantic composer.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

This roadside attraction looks like a flying saucer parked atop the tundra.

The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.

Ruins of two abandoned stations destroyed by the power they sought to harness.

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.