Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

This small, easily-overlooked sculpture recalls the first time Graz saw a live elephant.

This monument honors a true hero dog.

This feat of Brutalist architecture is also known as the Three Sisters.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

The local club's soccer field is practically surrounded by UNESCO-protected monuments.

This ancient Roman aqueduct once funneled water to Diocletian's palace.

Picturesque basketball courts sheltered by historical defensive walls and with an enviable sea view.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

This salt lake was a former mine site and now attracts visitors for its remarkable pink colors.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

Worship at the altar of seafood at this shop housed inside the town's oldest stone church.

This pioneer village is like a time capsule of 19th-century Australia.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

This antique store and museum features unusual items from all corners of the world.

This Western Australian mint was established during the height of the Australian gold rush.

Hundreds of people walk past this palm tree every day without spotting its secret.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This modern French ossuary contains the jumbled bones of 130,000 WWI soldiers.

Prowl through this sprawling bazaar under a massive Soviet-era dome for delicious eats.

This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

Legend holds that a tortoise turned itself into this island to save two shipwrecked sailors.

A replica of the lost rock cliff that was once significant in Singapore's maritime history.

These secretive tunnels were once the site of a Royal Air Force fuel reserve depot.