Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

Perhaps the tiniest sculpture in Saint Petersburg is a little bronze finch inspired by a song.

An unusual abandoned church damaged in World War II sits in a small village outside Moscow.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

Russia's giant concrete QWERTY keyboard is likely the largest in the world.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

An abandoned town of skeletal wooden homes.

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.

A small part of Russia that does not touch any other part of Russia.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.