Places sonyasheina Wants to Go

The world's largest banyan tree is followed by a community of worshippers.

This abandoned radar site is slowly being taken back by the jungle, its mission cut short by the end of the Cold War.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

The top of society once luxuriated in this world-class hotel, which continues to impress, even in ruin.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

Thanks to an acoustic anomaly, this unassuming stone bench has heard one hundred years of secrets.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

Home to 10,000 medical specimens including the remains of Rudolf Virchow's extensive collection of pathological specimens.

Berlin's oldest surviving academic architecture hosted decades of animal dissections.

A climbing route in the mountains of Italy’s Dolomites, built for soldiers during World War I.

An elegant chandelier hangs over this ancient sewer chamber, now open for concerts and public tours.

The painted and decorated towers of this Hindu shrine were once the tallest structures in one of the oldest cities in India.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

This mysterious underground cave in Shropshire dates back to the 18th or 19th century.

Mine your own precious stones.