Places Sam Wants to Go

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

Cabaret where the show girls are all androids, and the patrons couldn't be more pleased.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

One of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city, it is now overgrown with an urban forest.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

The hottest place on the planet.

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

The clever workshop that has been designing some of the most unusual coffins imaginable.

Africa's Venice on stilts.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.