Places Populaatti Wants to Go

A recently-abandoned international exhibition center.

This memorial park stands on the site of one of the largest mass executions of the Second World War.

The museum within the Kom-Ombo Temple complex houses mummified crocodiles and mummified crocodile eggs.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

The oldest known standing wooden building in the world is a chamber inside a burial mound.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

This large Roman bath complex offers a window into ancient life in the arid Central Anatolian steppe.

A collection of over 700 chess sets in a beautiful historic building.

This 13th-century UNESCO-listed "lion's house" mosque is named after a repurposed lion sculpture.

The biggest and deepest Cold War bunker open to the public can be found in southeast England.

A Cold War watchtower atop a WWII-era bunker on a historic Dutch dike.

An awe-inspiring giant blue whale jaw bone stands in the center of this Dutch island.

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

A section of destroyed vertical lift bridge stands alone in the Peene river.

A quirky house created entirely out of glass bottles combines a collector's spirit with an artist's flair.

In oil-rich Azerbaijan, people bathe in the black stuff.

Azerbaijani ghost town, decaying after a war left it an armed forces buffer zone.

Visit Finnish architect Matti Suuronen's first UFO-shaped home.

This misspelled graffiti reappears every time it is removed.

Relocated graffiti- and street-art exhibition space in a former national railway warehouse.

Sculptures of dinosaurs, trolls, and other beasts carved with chainsaws guard Finland's largest arboretum.

This honeycomb-textured tafone looks like a petrified troll head.