Places lusinna Wants to Go

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

A quaint medieval millhouse hovers surprisingly above the waters of the Seine.

A once drab public housing estate is transformed into a colorful gallery of trompe l’oeil murals.

The post-apocalyptic remnants of a bucolic town ruined by a plane crash.

Ghosts of France's colonial past.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

Plains of ash and pair of semi-active volcanoes contribute to the otherworldly beauty of this little-known Vanuatu island.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.