Places loganczar Wants to Go

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Wander among hulking piles of rusted machinery left over from the Eritrean-Ethiopian War.

Eritrea's futuristic gas station is a nod to Italy's fascist history.

The site of a bloody showdown between invading Iraqi forces and a cell of the popular resistance in Kuwait.

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

One of the last remnants of an 18th-century fort in the business district of Mumbai.

In Mumbai, a bright blue synagogue is the largest one for the Baghdadi Jewish community in Asia.

A 19th-century church in South Mumbai built to commemorate those who died in the First Anglo-Afghan War and the retreat from Kabul in 1842.

This colorful colonial neighborhood in Panjim is one of the only Latin Quarters in Asia.

Scholar, adventurer, saint, and instigator of the Goa Inquisition.

The last remaining colonial-era Italian church in Old Goa.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

This Gothic-style church is reputedly built atop the remains of one of Jesus's apostles.

The first English fort built in India.

This massive glowering Lenin head gazes out over eastern Siberia.

Enormous statue of the Emperor of the Mongols.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

A dictator's gold statue once rotated to face the sun on a 75-meter high marble tower.

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

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.