Places tristanpollock Wants to Go

This Croatian fairytale castle is slowly falling apart thanks to years of neglect.

Eat a meal surrounded by bomb fragments.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

Remains of military submarines built in secret jungle factories by the Tamil guerrillas' naval wing.

A massive fallen water tank bombed by the Tamil Tigers in the final stages of the long Sri Lankan Civil War.

Seven beautiful 1,000-year-old rock-cut Buddhist statues.

This amazing mountain temple is topped by one of the tallest sitting Buddha statues in the world.

Pettah's beautiful floating market was once a stinky canal in a sketchy industrial area.

This elaborate temple was built around one of the Buddha's teeth.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

Once thought to be the Garden of Eden it holds a holy footprint claimed to belong to Adam, Buddha and Shiva.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

This mesmerizing architectural wonder will take your breath away with its unusual color patterns.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

This Stockholm light tower can be controlled by anyone with a smartphone.

It is said a heartbroken man visited the gap every day to stare blankly out at the sea.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

This permanent collection of preserved bodies taken from Irish bogs is one of the leading authorities on such morbid mummies.

A nun spent 16 years painting the stunning Celtic mural that covers the interior of this WWI memorial.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.