Places 42atharry Wants to Go

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

One of the best-preserved impact craters on the planet is located in the middle of the Sahara Desert.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

"The country that ate itself."

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

A lake at the bottom of the ocean.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

The shortest in the world, this landing strip stretches a mere 1,312 feet before steep cliffs on either end plunge into the Caribbean.

Legend says those who drink from this trickle of water are destined to return to Montserrat.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

A giant gun barrel in Barbados that once hoped to shoot outer space with science.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.

This ghostly Alaska village still clings to a steep cliffside despite having been abandoned for over 50 years.

America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.

The site of one of Japan's very few American occupations during World War II still holds the relics of a roundly disastrous campaign.

Island of trash twice the size of Texas floats in the Pacific.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.