Places Tomas Zagoda Wants to Go

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

A scenic canyon with thick forests and historic ruins.

Towering metal swords commemorate a 12th-century victory.

A fountain filled with golden statues, celebrating the the ancient kingdom of Colchis.

Abandoned museum from the last days of Soviet domination, with a unique Brutalist design.

A gleaming white and undulating tower marks the border between Georgia and Turkey.

Georgia’s answer to Easter Island immortalizes the nation’s great poets, artists, and leaders in stone glory.

Luxury hotel turned into a refugee camp, then turned back into a luxury hotel.

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

Rock-hewn monastery complex with hundreds of cave structures tucked away into the mountainside.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

Take respite inside this jaw-dropping church while climbing the volcano where Georgia's Prometheus was once chained.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

More than 10,000 small mirrors cover the curved surface of the world's second-largest solar oven, located in a remote village in Uzbekistan.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

This spaceship-like Serbian monument reaches for the stars in celebration of the fallen fighters of fascism.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.