Places Pupuliini Wants to Go

A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

A pyramidal marker where the borders of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet on top of Mount Roraima.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

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

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

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

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Two thousand feline artifacts fill Malaysia's "Cat City."

The country’s first escalator is located in department store filled with batiks and beautiful Indonesian products.

These underground shelters dug by the Japanese during World War II later helped Timor-Leste achieve its independence.

These sacred totem houses connect the Fatakulu people with the spirits of their ancestors.

This volcanically volatile island town is home to an abandoned series of tunnels left by the Japanese during WWII.