Noboribetsu, Japan
Tenkaen (China Park of Heaven)
After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Noboribetsu, Japan
After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.
HarĂa, Spain
Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.
Atlanta, Georgia
This angular brutalist playground turns playtime into modern art time.
Gävle, Sweden
If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.
Grant, Oregon
This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.
Yachats, Oregon
On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.
Antarctica
The birthplace of the very first human resident born in Antarctica.
Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Brooklyn, New York
This otherwise innocuous bodega was once the headquarters of the most feared assassin's guild in American history.
New Zealand
The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.
Kyiv, Ukraine
This 1000 year old relic-filled cave monastery and UNESCO World Heritage Site also hosts an amazing micro-miniature museum.
Osaka, Japan
One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.
Russia
The Uyghur settlement in the middle of a lake continues to raise questions.
Antarctica
The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.
Fremont, California
Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.
Vallehermoso, Spain
On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.
Moscow, Russia
Moscow's imposing monument to the Space Age.
Isle of Bute, Scotland
A fernery hidden by neglect is uncovered, and an ancient specimen along with it.
Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona
This reclusive Hopi village in Arizona has been continuously populated longer than anywhere else in America.
Seaview, England
This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.
Kediri, Indonesia
Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.
Garni, Armenia
A geological oddity topped with a 2,000-year-old pagan temple.
Arinj, Armenia
She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.
Vienna, Austria
Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.