This route leads to unusual locations on earth: a Turkish villa district without residents, a Mexican island with dolls, a colored lake in Canada and a Polish forest with bent trees. The journey shows architectural features like a Prada store in the Texas desert and geological formations like the Darvaza crater in Turkmenistan.
Mudurnu, Turkey
Complex of 732 identical French-style castles left incomplete after a real estate market collapse.
Xochimilco, Mexico
Island displaying hundreds of dolls hanging from trees and buildings to commemorate a drowned girl.
Osoyoos, British Columbia, Canada
Lake containing circular pools of different colors created by high mineral concentration.
Gryfino, Poland
This pine forest contains 400 trees with trunks curved toward the north. The trees were planted during the 1930s.
Valentine, USA
This permanent art installation displays a closed concrete and glass Prada store in the Chihuahuan desert of Texas.
Meta, Colombia
The river displays red, yellow, green, blue and black hues between July and November due to different aquatic plants.
Tokushima, Japan
After residents moved away, an artist placed more than 350 life-sized dolls in public spaces.
Turkmenistan
A 70 meter wide crater in the desert where natural gas has burned continuously since 1971.
Belize
A 124-meter deep underwater cavity in the barrier reef seabed with a diameter of 300 meters.
Ukraine
A nuclear city founded in 1970 with 50,000 residents, fully evacuated after the 1986 reactor incident.
Lithuania
A pilgrimage site with over 100,000 religious crosses, visited by believers since the 19th century.
Idaho, USA
A 9-meter tall wooden building shaped as a beagle, functioning as a two-bedroom hotel.
Japan
An 80-meter tunnel with hanging wisteria flowers growing over metal arches creates a natural corridor.
Matamata, New Zealand
A permanent film location with 44 hobbit houses built into the green hills of a sheep farm.
Antofagasta, Chile
An 11-meter tall concrete sculpture of a hand rising from the Atacama desert floor.
Oregon, USA
A 6-meter deep crater in basalt rock that fills with seawater during high tide.
Huainan, China
The star-shaped road bridge generates musical notes through its construction when vehicles pass over it, similar to piano melodies.
Datong, China
The 12th-century temple complex is attached to a vertical cliff face with wooden beams, 50 meters above the ground.
Maranhão, Brazil
Sand desert with thousands of freshwater lagoons between white dunes that fill with water during the rainy season.
Rangali Island, Maldives
A restaurant with a transparent dome below sea level, surrounded by coral reefs and tropical fish at 5 meters depth.
Juneau, Alaska, USA
These caves form through the melting of Mendenhall Glacier. The frozen water creates blue vaulted tunnels within the ice.
Middle Island, Western Australia, Australia
The saline lake gets its pink color from microorganisms. The color persists throughout the year, even when water is removed.
Abhaneri, Rajasthan, India
This geometric well from the 9th century has 3500 steps on 13 levels. It reaches a depth of 30 meters.
Denizli, Turkey
Mineral thermal water flows over white limestone terraces. The temperatures reach up to 100 degrees Celsius.
Waitomo, New Zealand
Underground cave system with thousands of bioluminescent larvae glowing on the ceiling and reflecting in the water.
Paro, Bhutan
Buddhist temple built into a vertical cliff face at 3120 meters elevation in the Paro valley.
Palermo, Italy
Underground burial chambers containing 8000 preserved bodies in various clothing from 1599 to 1920.
Shiraz, Iran
Mosque with colored glass windows creating patterns on Persian carpets when sunlight enters.
Big Sur, California, USA
A 24-meter waterfall drops directly into the Pacific Ocean at an inaccessible beach in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.
Gansu, China
Red sandstone rock formations with multicolored mineral layers that formed over millions of years.
Jukkasjärvi, Sweden
Seasonal hotel with walls, furniture and sculptures made from Torne River ice, reconstructed annually.