Places watsonswanderlust Wants to Go

The unique design was created by the traditional way communal rice paddies were divided among the indigenous people.

An Indonesian mosque styled after St. Basil's Cathedral.

The wing of this deserted Boeing 737 almost touches the Dunkin' Donuts next door.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

Someone left a Boeing 737 in a field in southern Bali.

This WWII-era military installation once held an entire city within its walls - now, its walls are falling down.

The ruins of a town wiped out by the second-largest earthquake in recorded history.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

One woman's dream became a train hotel in her backyard.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.