Longwood, Saint Helena
Longwood House
Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Longwood, Saint Helena
Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.
Tristan da Cunha
The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.
Inaccessible Island
It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Bouvet Island
This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Scattered ruins and a tiny cemetery are all that remain of a failed attempt to colonize the inhospitable Desolate Islands.
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.
Antarctica
Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.
Antarctica
Considered the most remote point in the entire world.
Antarctica
Largest sub-glacial lake ever discovered.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Australia
Australia's only active volcanoes and highest peak are located on these remote islands thousands of miles away from the mainland.
Pyongyang, North Korea
North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."
Ozersk, Russia
Most polluted lake in the world, used as a radioactive dumping ground for years.
Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District, Russia
Unused mast taller than every structure in the EU.
Turukhansky District, Russia
Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.
Evenkiysky District, Russia
Site of the largest impact event to occur over land in Earth's recorded history.
Mirny, Russia
The world's second-largest excavated hole.
Ayano-Maysky District, Russia
Five mile wide circular ring of rock in the Russian Far East is a curious geological oddity.
Khangalassky District, Russia
A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.
Verkhoyanskiy ulus, Russia
The giant Siberian crater known locally as the "doorway to the underworld" is expanding every year.
Novaya Zemlya, Russia
Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.
Devon Island, Nunavut
The closest thing to Mars on Earth.
Baffin Region, Nunavut
Over 400,000 birds spend their summers nesting on this small Arctic island.
Nunavut
The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.