Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

Welded sphere dropped from space.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The origin of this sinisterly shaped forest is rooted in mystery.

This village was once a thriving Soviet uranium mining center, but is now semi-abandoned and desolate.

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

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.