Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

The first museum in the world devoted to sexual gadgetry.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

A quirky house created entirely out of glass bottles combines a collector's spirit with an artist's flair.

This striking icon of the disputed Republic of Artsakh caused a stir at a Eurovision Song Contest.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

The observation point offers spectacular views of the ruins of an ancient Armenian capital.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

After visiting hours, this picturesque waterfall is essentially turned "off" to be used for hydroelectric power.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.

This region of Slovakia boasts some of the most plentiful opal mines in the world.

An abandoned 19th-century iron factory perched along the outskirts of an idyllic village.

A line of disused military bunkers built to defend against Nazi invasion lies hidden on the outskirts of the city.

Museum dedicated to overthrowing the Soviets, complete with diorama of Soviets being beaten to death with shovels.