Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

After a traumatic encounter with a six-foot eel, one Galway baker started making a daily loaf of sourdough in its shape.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

This French Canadian classic is a specialty of the oldest continually used church in Minneapolis.

A public urinal so pretty, it was declared a national monument.

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

A network of ancient Egyptian tombs built into the cliff face along the Nile.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

The city-sized home palace of one of ancient Egypt's most powerful rulers gives us a rare look into the lives of the epoch's rulers.

Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

Source for a sizable portion of Egypt's freshwater supply is more than an optical illusion.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

The massive cave church of Cairo's Zabbaleen community is one of the largest Christian churches in the Middle East.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.