Places shatteredpools Wants to Go

A small but hugely whimsical theater where marionettes play out the "The Battle of Stalingrad."

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

Unusual building appears to be haphazardly built from randomly piled bricks.

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

A three-table eatery sits inside the home-kitchen of a seafood virtuoso in Bangkok's Chinatown.

On a small Slovenian island, diners can mix and match a classic cake into dozens of sweet and savory flavor combinations.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This historic factory peddles classic toys from the picturesque English county of Devon.

A giant milk bottle from the 1930s beckons drivers to this diner.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

Eco-village hidden in the foothills of the Alps that created a massive system of psychedelic underground temples.

For part of the year, this innovative greenhouse is painted white to keep the plants from getting scorched.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

The artwork detailing the city's history features a few controversial characters.

A rocky sea serpent hides caves, blowholes, and a spectacular natural bridge.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.