Places Chris Staring Wants to Go

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

Right angles in the forests of Panama.

An old slave lookout in Cuba's historic sugar cane fields.

Former WWI oil tanker played a variety of roles in history, its tantalizing rum-flavored scent being the only constant.

A nuclear power plant abandoned along with an international allegience.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.

In a long-dry lake bed, these groups of massive stone pillars bear a striking resemblance to clumps of everyone's favorite fungi.

An abandoned saucer-shaped monument in the Bulgarian mountains.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

Hiding the longest subterranean river known in the world.

Ancient man-made caves underneath small town Belgium.

Louise Bourgeois' 30-foot-tall steel spider sculpture.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.