Places tstriegel Wants to Go

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

Stretching almost 2,000 feet, this painting is one of the longest pieces of Buddhist artwork in the world.

This sublime architectural marvel is a rare example of an expressionist church.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

The hottest place on the planet.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

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

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

There is a strange little carving of a person seemingly crushed by a pillar behind the remains of St. Thomas Aquinas.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.