Places Juan31505 Wants to Go

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

An artist's mausoleum with a haunting echo.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

The southernmost postal office in South America.

This ancient theater, restored in the 20th century, lives on as a venue for dramatic and musical performances.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Where you'll find anything but nothing.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

A Soviet-era health spa complete with radioactive bathing and shock therapy.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

The remains of a monument in the remote Kazakhstani desert dedicated to the only men to die in outer space, the crew of the Soyuz 11 rocket.

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.

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

Avenue of trees planted by cosmonauts before their space departures.

Home to what was once considered the largest gate in central Asia.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.