Places Pupuliini Wants to Go

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

This historic castle is one of the oldest and most impressive in all of Japan.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

In the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, lies a train trestle to nowhere.

A sacred Ojibwe site covered in pictographs next to Lake Superior.

Celebrating the end of winter, students gather every year at Lake Superior State University to torch a 12-foot-tall snowman.

A monument to the more than one million enslaved Africans deported from the port of Ouidah.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

Buried deep in the forest near Limbe, this little-known slave port became the point of no return for 10 percent of enslaved Africans.

This deceptively beautiful island was once home to a German concentration camp and known as "Death Island."

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

Legend says this remote, “bottomless” lake was created by a curse.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

Land that belongs to no nation.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.

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

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

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