Places novalinne Wants to Go

A hyper-remote desert cave dramatized in "The English Patient."

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

One of the world's largest murals covers a large swath of homes in its hillside neighborhood.

An air of mystery pervades this modern-day singing Stonehenge.

Tatar Russian in origin, the largest mosque in Japan is now an Ottoman-style Turkish culture center.

The Hindu god Vishnu is said to have walked at this Hindu pilgrimage site.

This rail trail culminates in a three-mile land bridge only accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.

A remote shipwreck at the end of the world.

This sacred site lives up to its name with its majestic, color-splashed sandstone formations.

An eerie ghost village hidden in the forests of the Eifel, frozen in a strange postwar limbo.

A steaming, boiling hellscape sources Hokkaido's thermal baths.

A lookout spot for the Andean condor, at the edges of one of the deepest canyons in the world.

It’s a painted window that looks completely real, hiding on a building in the market square.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Tucked away on the edge of a forest, this tranquil oasis brings a piece of Japan to rural Brandenburg.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark designs bring a Thai temple to life once the sun has set.

This largely abandoned village was home to a bustling mining community in the Soviet era.

This majestic twelve-story wooden pagoda built into the side of a divine hill was saved from the Three Gorges Dam.

This medieval oratory decorated in magnificent frescos was constructed after Charlemagne received a vision.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

This historic trading post has been serving the community since 1913.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The largest ongoing mosaic project in Europe.