Places remcrae Wants to Go

Home of the future Emperors of Russia.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

The 100-foot-tall (30-meter) bronze statue was built to recognize the world's only documented all-female army.

A giant chameleon, with a fascinating purpose.

This subterranean town of over 50 dwellings lies thirty feet beneath the Earth's surface.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

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

These mysterious 1,000-year-old walls have revealed little about their past.

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

The unique building practices of the Batammariba reflect the community's deep reverence for and connection to the earth.

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

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

Topless shrine of northern Ghana.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

At Ghana's largest wildlife refuge you feel like you're right in the animals' backyard.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

A ghost town on the slopes of a hand-shaped rock is haunted by the story of a 17th-century murder.

Early Islamic mosque with several strange conical domes.

This triumphal arch is the only fully standing structure that remains from Roman-era Oea.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

A fortress-like granary that has been continually in use for more than nine centuries.

A beautiful oasis town dating back to the Roman period still serves as reprieve from the brutal summer sun in Libya.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Made famous by 'Star Wars,' these troglodyte homes face an uncertain future.