Places Nienna Wants to Go

Mineral springs believed to hold therapeutic properties draw in visitors from all over.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

This miniature take on the Kremlin is one Dutch man's retirement project.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

A historic observatory now an astronomy museum beautifully situated at the moat of the Middle Age city centre.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

This abandoned Olympic skiing facility still bears the scars of the Siege of Sarajevo.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Two distorted Romanesque columns hold aloft a mine cart in honor of laborers who died during WWII.

Silent memorial, using bone conduction to take people back to the Dresden Bombing of 1945.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

An Albanian monument to the Communism that nearly crushed the country is now a crumbling wreck.

Space-age monument to an early 20th-century uprising.