Places stonoceno Wants to Go

A somewhat mysterious biomedical museum housed inside a Spanish university.

The former 1920s mansion of a prominent Catalan developer was used as the Soviet Embassy during the Spanish Civil War, and there is still a bunker below the garden.

Semi-mystical manmade towers of rocks decorate this rocky seaside.

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

Abandoned 18th century weapons factory in the Aezkoa Valley.

Hundreds of caves once used to store grains and animal feed.

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.

A whimsical garden of outsider art in the Spanish countryside.

Religious dwelling in a Spanish volcano.

This steamship has been beautifully rusting off the coast of an Iranian island since the 1960s.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

Burial site of a Jewish prophet revered in Iran.

Named after a legendary garden called Eram in southern Arabia, built by order of Shaddad, an Arab king who wanted to compete with Paradise.

This circular Iranian jail was once a political prison run by the country's secret police.

Marked by the hand of the explorer Henry Morton Stanley.

Iranian tombstones shaped like male and female sexual organs.

This 12,000 year old Iranian cave village has been continuously inhabited for over 3,000 years.

This ancient burial site is believed to be one of the first earthquake-protected structures in the world.

These little castles each held thousands of pigeons.

Below a historic English market town lies a secret underground city complete with kitchens, laundries, storerooms, and an underground lake.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

The final resting place to 300 Victorian-era pets hides inside the city park.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.