Places yohan Wants to Go

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This three-chambered cave is the only protected natural bat hibernaculum in Quebec.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

Boats must transform into railroad cars to navigate this Polish canal.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

This peculiar border irregularity is the only way to legally enter Russia without a visa.

Man-made mineral caves house massive bat colony.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

The Nazis lost more men trying to take this Russian-held Stalingrad apartment block than they did when taking Paris.

Former prison camp dedicated to the victims of political repression.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

Nightmarish example of the unintended consequences of weapons testing.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.