Places acrig Wants to Go

A German “baron” built this castle for his wife, but their romance was short-lived.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

In the Manduri reserve of Sao Paulo, you can see the endangered black-horned capuchin monkey up close.

This unique bird reserve sits within an important fragment of Brazil's Atlantic rainforest.

The final resting place of the cats that once belonged to a Brazilian actress.

This small Brazilian museum honors the work of a German biologist who studied the jungles for decades.

The preserved home of the first settler of "the most German town in Brazil."

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

Solitary monument dedicated to the beauty of nature.

Museum precariously perched on a massive yellow pillar.

A small-town Nebraska museum is home to thousands of handmade clown dolls.

The only perennial creek in the Mojave Preserve is also the site of an 1860s fort.

This Cardiff Bay landmark traces its history back to when Norwegian ships transported coal from Wales.

The technology company Ericsson erected a real rune stone to mark the birthplace of the wireless technology.

A painted medieval castle where the most celebrated outlaw-poet of the Middle Ages was imprisoned — and where you can descend into his exact cell, nine centuries later.

The Pamir Highway between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan takes a mere hour driving through a stretch of No Man’s Land.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.

It is rumored that if you spot this little golden frog hiding in plain sight, good luck will come your way.