Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

This former shopping center now acts as the eccentric lair of the Venezuelan secret police and their shadow prison.

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.

This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.

Surrounded by natural bridges, this picturesque waterfall drops hundreds of feet into an underground cave.

Modern museum, designed for Jihadi tourists.

This modernist cinema has survived war and reconstruction to become a symbol of Lebanon’s revolutionary spirit.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

After this one-of-a-kind palace was built the architect's hands are said to have been cut off to keep it that way.

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

The home of Joseph Stalin during the Potsdam conference.

The only remaining vespasienne in Paris is a (stinky) relic of Resistance.

This aqueduct with 18th-century origins is integrated into modern life in various ways in Oaxaca.

A truly obscure, hidden Cold War monument.

Nine healing baths available only to those who stay in this quaint town, said to have inspired 'Spirited Away.'

A World War I German experimental concrete plant, hidden deep in a French forest.

Czechoslovakia’s first competition pool, now a decaying ruin of a functionalist marvel.