Places rosetatarsky Wants to Go

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A rare example of a building constructed specifically for catching eels.

This building has lived several lives and now houses the history of South Pasadena.

This bronze statue honors one of the leaders of the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom.

These crumbling walls serve as a reminder of the golden age of safaris in Chitwan National Park.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

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

An enchanting rocky island of scraggly baobabs surrounded by an ancient sea and sprawling salt pans.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

A large portion of this navigable canal runs under Paris's famed boulevards.

A cocktail lounge decorated like an American dive bar, in honor of the legendary author Ernest Hemingway.

This stone angel is one of the biggest caryatids in all of Paris.

A treasure trove of audio technology, from wax cylinders to juke boxes and record players.

An underground tropical garden sits inside a Paris Métro Station.

Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology.

A desert ghost town—occupied for only 12 years—was once home to more than 500 silver mines.

A small space-exploration exhibit hidden in a hotel.

Colorful sedimentary rock layers provide opportunities both for hiking and photography.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

The cluster of boulders near Fort Irwin is covered in military insignia.

In the country around Buttonwillow, California, a marker commemorates a revealing moment in the story of a water colony from the fictional Kcymaerxthaere that sought independence.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.