Places Nicole Lee Wants to Go

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

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

Museum dedicated to the largest battleship ever built.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

An eerie reminder to the horrors of World War II.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

This tucked-away cemetery is the final resting place of a prospector who uncovered one of the largest gold mines in Arizona.

Opinions differ as to whether this Arizona tree was actually used as a Wild West jail, but that hasn't stopped the town from capitalizing on it.

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

Remnants of the city's Soviet history hover over this modern fast-food outlet.

Dedicated to the lives lost during a fatal stampede in the Nyamiha Station.

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

The secret meeting held in this building would forever change the world.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

This cypress grove is a unique site considering these trees are not native to the region.

A massive cross stands as the sole resident of this water-locked Crimean crag.

This vineyard was the site of the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade.

One of the cave cities of Crimea, built by the Goths in the sixth century.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.