Places 42atharry Wants to Go

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.

Rare mummified forest could offers a glimpse into how our environment has been changed by humans.

A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.

Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This isolated island is often capped by its own fluffy cloud.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

British Empire's last territorial expansion, claimed by four countries.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

The "Kill Bill Church" was transformed into a place of worship after a long Hollywood history.