Places Samir S. Patel Wants to Go

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Take a break from all the boring business of death at this funeral home mini-golf course.

A World War II torpedo launch station abandoned off the Polish coast.

An abandoned World War II tank left to rust in the downland.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.

Wonderfully preserved Victorian factory, complete with a preserved steam powered engine house.

The South Carolina competition challenges you to trap as much grits on your body as possible.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

This ancient fortress in Iran was once the oldest and largest treasury in the world.

This architecturally eclectic fortress witnessed centuries of bloody turmoil, including the massacre of its ruling clan.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

A former bastion of Rajput chivalry, this massive hill fort is the site of legend and tragedy.