Places Milo Vella Wants to Go

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

What was once the largest mine in North America has left behind a hollow hill filled with bright blue waters.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Where giant ships go to die.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

Described as "the world's most blinging pool."

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

Another of California's unused Cold War missile defense complexes has become a graffiti gallery.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

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

An independent naturist colony amidst 1000-year-old ruins.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

Mined to a depth of 240 meters with a perimeter of about 1.6 km, the largest hand-dug excavation in the world.