Places wasik Wants to Go

Giant stone letters dedicated to the founder of Armenia's alphabet.

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

You'll find just about anything in this funky Tbilisi flea market.

Small church on top of a huge rock column.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

Its frescoes depict the likeness of Marshal Tito, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels burning in hell.

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

This top-secret nuclear bunker hidden in a Bosnian mountain has been converted to a modern art exhibition space.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A crumbling monument to a now locally-extinct sport in Bulgaria's oldest ski resort.

An abandoned sanatorium building from the early 20th century sits in the forest of the Rila mountains.

Now a ruin, this grand resort was coveted by a communist autocrat and an eccentric Japanese golfer.

The famous springs of this small town still flow outside this historic building.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

One English town's celebratory landmark spurred more trouble than anticipated.

An anti-tank graveyard in the English countryside.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

These 1,500-year-old remains were found in a mysterious Anglo-Saxon mass grave.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.