Places qfitz Wants to Go

This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.

A house that transports visitors back to Yugoslavia.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

A charming easy-to-miss sculpture garden filled with whimsical and thought-provoking metal sculptures.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

Thousands of turbines whir at the origin of North American wind power.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

Get your footwear fixed inside a 30-foot-long shoe built by an obsessive cobbler in 1947.

Wander through desolate oil fields littered with rigs.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

Historic beer hall in Bucharest with magnificent stained glass and a lively folk band.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

One of Serbia's oldest luxury hotels and a nostalgic echo to Yugoslavia in the state's former capital.

A chapel dedicated to Saint Sava built on the rugged cliffs of Kablar.

A neglected spomenik overlooking the beautiful Kopaonik Mountains.

A large concrete replica of a 12th-century figurine.

A towering spire in the fortress of Kalemegdan honors the victorious armies of Serbia during their struggles against the Ottoman Empire.

Memorial to the victims of the Holocaust in Serbia.

A tribute to a man who defied the Nazis until his last breath.

Near Belgrade, an ancient-looking sarcophagus serves as a World War I monument.