Places tobbinator Wants to Go

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.

Glacial lake that mysteriously empties itself every year.

Time capsule of a museum, in which the Soviet Union remains alive and kicking.

Extremely isolated Silk Road caravanserai in the middle of nowhere.

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

Medieval ruins on a tiny island amid a flooded lake offer romantic respite to lovers seeking privacy.

The natural mummy of the less than chivalrous Knight Kahlbutz.

There are two dozen tanks just sitting in an open field in Lower Saxony.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

The remains of Crystal Palace Great Exhibition of 1851.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.