Places mollymae43 Wants to Go

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Four steel monoliths stand in the Qatari desert, in a breathtaking work of large-scale art by Richard Serra.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Tasked with beautifying a disused stretch of industrial land one artist filled a hole with grass.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

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

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

The largest freshwater lake in northeast India is also the only floating national park in the world.

Kayak out to a floating restroom.

No one is exactly sure why over a hundred lakes have formed amongst the tallest sand dunes on Earth.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

A series of concentric circles represented a bold new experiment in socialist urban planning, and it notoriously difficult to get around.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

Although rarely used, there is still a hidden room for the royal family at the Stockholm central station.

A room hidden behind a swinging shelf in the children's section.

The secret room where early Bolsheviks cranked out propaganda fliers on a smuggled printing press.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.