Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

Nepal's first aviation museum found a logical home in the most unexpected place.

Jumping-off point for a climb up Mt. Everest is the most dangerous airport in the world.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

At 72 feet below sea level, it's the lowest commercial airport in the world.

An abandoned Soviet-era park that, when viewed from the air, looks like a pentagram.

Nicknamed Kazakhstan's Grand Canyon, this natural wonder lies east of Almaty near the Chinese border.

Mysterious spherical rocks in the semi-desert of western Kazakhstan.

One of the most horrible legacies of the Cold War is a site where the Soviet Union tested nuclear bombs on civilians.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

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

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

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

Glacial lake that mysteriously empties itself every year.

A boulder carved into the shape of the cosmonaut's head.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

One of the most ethnically diverse spots on the planet.

Touching displays of wishes for peace from the Cold War era.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

No cyclone yet has been able to topple this rugged Indian lighthouse.

This rare basalt crater lake is used to study the Moon and Mars.

Bold contestants slide in a rice paddy behind two charging bulls.

At 8,000 feet, the world's highest tea estate draws visitors for both its products and its panoramic views.