Places moreworld2c Wants to Go

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.

This striking memorial is one of Estonia’s most controversial Soviet leftovers.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

This site was a school and a center of Japanese-American life before internment.

A monument dedicated to three unlikely visitors to North America.

This park celebrates a sister city relationship that survived the Cold War.

An abandoned World War II bunker is part of a chain that runs throughout Washington.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

This "tower of death" has acted as an observatory, a religious hub, and an executioner's lair.

Controversially restored in the 1970s, this giant 15th-century mosque is shrouded in legend.

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

An eccentric museum dedicated to Islam Karimov, the former dictator of Uzbekistan.

Once a luxurious flagship of the Soviet Union, this Brutalist structure remains a landmark of Tashkent’s communist past.

Prowl through this sprawling bazaar under a massive Soviet-era dome for delicious eats.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

Touching displays of wishes for peace from the Cold War era.

A Soviet-era health spa complete with radioactive bathing and shock therapy.

The first version of this stalwart construction appeared around 3,000 years ago.

A building facade covered with the statues of 11 giants of Tajik literature.