Places semken Wants to Go

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Some believe this abandoned Brutalist masterpiece inspired George Lucas's Sandcrawler.

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

Shiny Brutalist box commemorates a pioneer of electricity and houses a railway transformer.

Hidden beneath a lake for decades, this brutalist mine has now emerged from beneath the receding waters.

In the middle of a desert subdivision, there is supposedly an impact crater site from Kcymaerxthaereal times.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Israel's premiere solar energy research facility provides energy to nomads.

Deep in the Negev Desert, the world's tallest solar tower looks like a sight straight out of science fiction.

Four steel monoliths stand in the Qatari desert, in a breathtaking work of large-scale art by Richard Serra.

The quaint gallery displays works by artists from all across Mauritania.

Thousands of colorful pirogues showcase ingenious craftsmanship at the largest fishermen port in Nouakchott.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

Climb atop one of the world's longest and heaviest trains for an unbelievable journey across the Sahara Desert.

Initially meant to immortalize the valor of the colonizer, this monument is now a symbol of Mauritanian resistance.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Squeezing inside this deep, narrow canyon reveals a festival of desert colors.

A refurbished locomotive from a bygone era in the middle of the Jordanian desert.