Places lilbird Wants to Go

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

This unique competition celebrates an American Indian and Canadian First Nation cultural tradition.

A temple made famous by Japanese Buddhist monks who sacrificed themselves at sea.

A dreamlike medieval church dug into the tuff rock, with unusual carvings and possible traces of the Templar knights.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

The most complete statue of this Aztec god sits a top a throne carved with images of hallucinogenic plants.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.

Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.

This architecturally eclectic early-20th century mosque was built as a place of worship for the Islamic followers of a Jewish messiah.

Ancient barriers wrap around what was once an important stop along the Silk Road.

A nearly abandoned Jewish settlement perched atop a hill in the heart of Yemen.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

Elaborate patterns adorn the city's disappearing traditional architecture.

This traditional garden in the San Fernando Valley doubled for Star Fleet Academy, and is irrigated entirely by wastewater.

This impressive system of tanks was used to store drinking water as long as 2,000 years ago.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.