Places marasta215 Wants to Go

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Monks in the empyreal Alazani River valley have preserved their 1,000-year-old winemaking tradition.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

These Stalin-era industrial 'death traps' hang lifeless above the city

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

Elaborate mansions built by Roma residents in Soroca to show their success after centuries of discrimination.

This beautiful eden was once the vacation home of Tahitian royals before Marlon Brando bought it.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

This iconic pavilion in Barquisimeto has a roof made from 16 “petals” that open and close depending on the weather.

Small church built in the 19th century for whites and slaves to worship together.

A hotly contested micro-nation off the coast of Montserrat.

Legend says those who drink from this trickle of water are destined to return to Montserrat.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

At first glance, little checkered structures on the hillside look like they house the living, not the dead.

On a small island in the Caribbean, a statue of Napoleon's first wife has been beheaded and covered in red paint.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.

A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.

A three-centuries-old crypt in the foothills of an old plantation.