Places umweber5 Wants to Go

In a sleepy village in Oxfordshire, the visionary English writer's gravesite attracts a yearly pilgrimage.

Shakespeare, David Bowie, Dr. Who, the Saxons, Druids and Romans are all claimed to have all made their mark on these massive man made tunnels.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

London's largest outsider art museum.

This magical museum celebrates the life and work of a seminal children's book writer (and occasional spy).

Elaborate patterns adorn the city's disappearing traditional architecture.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

Some 20,000 dust-covered unwanted vehicles languish in the desert.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

Massive stele returned to Ethiopia after 70 years in Rome.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

An Ethiopian cloud forest protects some of the last wild arabica plants.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.

A city entirely devoted to illegal gun production.

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.