Places watsonswanderlust Wants to Go

A memorial dedicated to the victims of the My Lai Massacre.

Shoes and revealing shirts are not allowed inside this giant Vietnamese Christ.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

Walk through a clothing store, across a courtyard, and up several flights of stairs for delicious coffee with a side of beautiful views.

Ho Chi Minh's perfectly preserved body has been on display here since 1975.

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

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

A delightful architectural wonder awaits on a lake island in Kuala Lumpur’s oldest park.

The remains of this RAF plane and its crew were lost for decades, nearly engulfed by the Malaysian jungle.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

This stunning, out-of-the-way Croatian monument commemorates a community's uprising against occupying fascist forces.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

This military tunnel dates back to World War II and provides visitors with a little wartime adrenaline.

Now abandoned, the world's first torpedo factory is crumbling into the sea.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.

One of the largest wooden constructions in Europe was meant to be a casino, but soon became an orphanage.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.