Places Rogier Wants to Go

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A unique attraction and museum dedicated to exploring iconic roadside structures.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

One of the tallest mountains in India was closed for years after a botched CIA mission.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

One man single-handedly dug a road right through a mountain after his wife died due to its interference.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

340-foot statue built to honour the Heroes of the Soviet Union.

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

An ultra-modern diversity park in Denmark has turned an entire city block electric pink.

Putrefaction plateaus in Iran, where the dead were sent for decontamination before going to their final resting place.

Housed in an old church, this hunting museum holds a collection of mythical bird-rabbit creatures.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.