French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Kerguelen Islands
French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.
Places Nick S Wants to Go
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Kalabaka, Greece
Meteora
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Namibia
Kolmanskop Ghost Town
The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.
Saint George's, Grenada
Jason de Caires Taylor's Underwater Sculpture Garden
A gallery of underwater art that can be visited by man and fish alike.
French Guiana
Devil’s Island
An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Brickmania GHQ
The Real LegoLand.
Shibam, Yemen
Shibam
A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."
Djenne, Mali
Great Mud Mosque of Djenné
The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.
Chinguetti, Mauritania
The Libraries of Chinguetti
Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents
Tamarugal, Chile
The Nitrate Towns of Chile
Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.
Singapore
Haw Par Villa
A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.
Famagusta, Cyprus
Varosha Beach Resort
A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.
Kazanlak, Bulgaria
Buzludzha Monument
An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.
Lützen, Germany
Gustav II Adolf's Place of Death
A monument to the "father of modern warfare" Gustav II Adolf.
