Places mjh Wants to Go

This beautiful, all-in-one museum, private residence, and bed and breakfast houses a rich collection of African art.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

Dive into an undersea optical illusion off the coast of Mauritius.

An artificial cave littered with semi-precious stones waiting to be picked up.

The first successful human heart transplant is depicted through wax figures at the hospital where it the surgery took place.

A 19th-century relic of timekeeping.

The jaw of one of humankind's earliest ancestors on display at an overlooked geology museum.

A small museum dedicated to the history and design of German packaging.

This 18th-century folly is one of Europe's rare "garden mosques."

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Two elaborately decorated "catacomb saints" are displayed on either side of the altar in a small church in Germany.

Dancing skeletal figures pay homage to a medieval mural destroyed during World War II.

Sip “liquid cuisine” made with meat, vegetables, and insects.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

An off-the-beaten-path monastery in the northern hills of Ulaanbaatar.

Soviet General Zhukov’s former home is a quiet spot amid the heavy traffic of Ulaanbaatar.

This cozy little museum is a journey through the history of Mongolia’s capital.

A collection of old steam and diesel locomotives sitting in a fenced-off garden.

Ancient site of Mongolian Shamanism located near a road leading out of Ulaanbaatar.