Places Chubwolf Wants to Go

A powerful tribute to the victims who suffered under Ethiopia's most devastating regime.

Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

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

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

Spiral labyrinth hidden in the hills above Oakland, CA.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

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

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

A collection of human remains, animal body parts, and other macabre curiosities all legally for sale.

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.