Places rbenn250 Wants to Go

Crumbling World War II-era gun emplacements still stand near lighthouses on the Spanish coast.

One of the smallest bookstores on the planet.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

A tribute to the region's fruit industry.

In this African village, the walls of the chief's compound are painted with beautiful traditional designs.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

More than 1,000 stone figures were discovered in a small Nigerian town, where they had been sitting for centuries.

Not your average art gallery, this massive center hosts 8,000 works from artists across Africa—and it’s free to the public.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

The Voodoo Superstore of the world.

A seemingly desolate park that belongs to two countries actually supports all kinds of wildlife.

This odd little home was built right into an African rock face.

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

This amateur-built East African church with mismatched towers is an architectural abnormality.

This 100-foot tall tombstone memorializes victims of 40 years of nuclear testing in Kazakhstan.

This temple located on a vertical drop of a rocky mountain houses relics from the Song Dynasty.

The world's second-largest excavated hole.

Headquarters of the world's fourth largest Hasidic sect and the first of many "770s" around the world.