Places theloniusjaz Wants to Go

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

A spectacular rainbow of stained glass makes the "Pink Mosque" one of the most beautiful in Iran.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

Over 3km of caverns and caves at the Switzerland-France border contain the largest underground river in Central Europe.

A mythically themed self-built sculpture park.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.