The Failing NY Times published its stale 52 Places to Go in 2025. Based on the unoriginality, I am convinced they used an AI bot to create their list. To retaliate, I told my AI bot to come up with a list of UN countries I haven’t visited. I asked it to rank the cities by ‘danger.’ While most will be missed this year (see I Don’t Want to Visit Every Country), many are intriguing and may make the cut (no pun intended). Those are bolded below with Lagos, Nigeria my top demand.
TPOL’s Trivia: I have been to 119 out of 193 countries (see Where I’ve Been).
- Kabul, Afghanistan
- Algiers, Algeria
- Luanda, Angola
- Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Minsk, Belarus
- Belize City, Belize
- Cotonou, Benin
- Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Gitega, Burundi
- Douala, Cameroon
- Bangui, Central African Republic
- N’Djamena, Chad
- Moroni, Comoros
- Brazzaville, Congo (Republic of the)
- Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
- Havana, Cuba
- Pyongyang, North Korea
- Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti City, Djibouti
- Roseau, Dominica
- Quito, Ecuador
- San Salvador, El Salvador
- Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
- Asmara, Eritrea
- Libreville, Gabon
- Banjul, Gambia
- Accra, Ghana
- Guatemala City, Guatemala
- Conakry, Guinea
- Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
- Georgetown, Guyana
- Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Tehran, Iran
- Maseru, Lesotho
- Monrovia, Liberia
- Tripoli, Libya
- Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- Antananarivo, Madagascar
- Lilongwe, Malawi
- Bamako, Mali
- Majuro, Marshall Islands
- Nouakchott, Mauritania
- Palikir, Micronesia
- Maputo, Mozambique
- Yamoussoukro, Côte d’Ivoire
- Managua, Nicaragua
- Niamey, Niger
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Islamabad, Pakistan
- Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
- Juba, South Sudan
You are so cool to come up with this list
Thank the AI not me. But then again I don’t think you’re being sincere