Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

This unique wooden mosque resembling a Chinese pagoda was said to be built without the use of nails.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

World's oldest and largest space launch facility, once a secret missile testing site.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

This village in Bohemian Switzerland hosts more than 300 wood carvings inspired by fairytales, folklore, and other oddities, as well as a series of Communist-era tanks

The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

In a lighthouse by a vanished sea stands a museum for a man who never existed.

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

A historic and beautiful Art Nouveau chamber in a historic railway station.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

A saintly relic hidden in a Prague church basement.

The largest and best-preserved rotunda in Prague.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Now a ruin, this grand resort was coveted by a communist autocrat and an eccentric Japanese golfer.

Housed in a historic 1840 home, this museum provides a window into the lives of everyday, 18th- and 19th-century Bulgarians.

A chain coffee shop in Bulgaria that takes its Italian roots very seriously.

Step inside this medieval Orthodox gem and travel back to the 16th century.

An interactive museum-like experience takes visitors back to 1980s Communist Bulgaria.

At almost 900 feet long, this is Bulgaria's longest suspension bridge and the only way to reach the small village of Lisitsite.

One of the world’s only pink lakes where it's possible to take a dip.

This fifth-century church is one of the oldest Christian sites in the Balkans.

Founded in the 4th-century, the town of Pernik plays host to the Surva Carnival⁠—a magnificent display of masked Kukeri dancers.