Places Flaneurgh Wants to Go

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

This village was once a thriving Soviet uranium mining center, but is now semi-abandoned and desolate.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

The site of many tense prisoner exchanges across the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

An incredibly random collection of wax figures is displayed in a shopping center walkway.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

A surreal pile of colorful junk fills a small yard in an otherwise gray neighborhood.

A bright turquoise river cascades beautifully down stepped terraces in southern China.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

A celebration of all things tacky, garish, and bizarrely creative in the Romanian capital.

A mesmerizing reservoir nestled at the heart of a pre-Islamic Yemeni village.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

Thousands of slain Soviet soldiers are buried within the shadow of this enormous obelisk.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

Manchester salvaged this sculpture of the adopted Mancunian when it was no longer wanted in Ukraine.

This whimsical statue dumps water on its head to symbolize knowledge flowing into his brain. Or maybe booze.

The sunken structure looks like the victim of a catastrophic flood.