Places loquito57 Wants to Go

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

The largest Lenin statue in Central Asia was moved to an empty field rather than being destroyed.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

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

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

This working replica of the 'Friends' coffee shop is more accurate to the show than the set itself.

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.

An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.

A hidden treasure in London with a rich medieval history, and the resting place of many luminaries.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

Largest man-made excavation on earth!