Places LucasJV Wants to Go

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

An unusual collection of self-made musical instruments and unique noises.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

A man-made island designed to look like a massive battleship.

It is believed that the historic tower is sinking at a rate of an inch a year, though no one is completely sure why.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

Some locals believe the fabled lost gold of General Yamashida is hiding somewhere beneath the city.

This eerie abandoned building with a dark history is said to be one of the most haunted places in the Philippines.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Climb around the high waterfalls on series of iron ladders and bridges within the wildest gorge in the Slovak Paradise.

This bar and museum are devoted to the controversial comic book work of Kája Saudek.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

This retro, UFO-like structure is a remnant of the Soviet-era circus.

Hidden in a metro shop under a shopping mall, this small museum tells the story of one of the world's largest urban transit systems.

The gorgeous entrances into the city's underbelly look more like grand halls than subway stops.

Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.

The place where Czar Peter I of Russia resided in 1697 during his Grand Embassy.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.