Places Lo Wants to Go

3D war panorama in Damascus built with help from North Korea.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Home of the infamous Rug Man of Doha.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

This museum preserves the hand-dug tunnel that kept Sarajevo afloat during the Serbian siege.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

Hidden behind a wall for decades, this masonic lodge was only rediscovered during renovations.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

One of the world's tallest statues is also one of its most hated.

Former estate of Lenin, now home to his death mask.

Stalin's secret bunker.

This nostalgic Russian museum is full of USSR cultural artifacts from the 1970s and 80s.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

This building holds the embalmed remains of the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.