Places Will Wants to Go

The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

For decades, a bottle factory dumped their waste into these waters—now it's considered the best sea glass beach in England.

This memorial honors the first British soldier killed by enemy action on home soil during World War I.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

A clumsy-looking flying locomotive rusts within sight of a busy rail station.

The handiwork of a underdog clockmaker who solved an impossible problem for an Empire, and forever revolutionized seafaring.

A section of a historic wooden trestle viaduct is preserved next to the railway line it once carried.

The smallest country in the world.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

A unique collection of Soviet military artifacts lies hidden away in a disused train, in the unrecognized Eastern European republic of Transnistria.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

This micro-nation may be some sort of prank, but its constitution sure seems official.

Once known throughout Europe, this tiny and unusually progressive 18th century micro-nation within Lithuania now lies in ruins.

A self-proclaimed libertarian micro-state on a tiny bit of disputed territory between Serbia and Croatia.

The most peaceful "country" in the Middle East.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee."

An unrecognized nation-state created in the 1820s to avoid taxes.

This sign marks the entrance to a tiny proto-state within the small country of Moldova.

Despite being of the most short-lived republics in history, this small Chilean town won’t forget its two days of independence.