Places aemem Wants to Go

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

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

This deceptively beautiful island was once home to a German concentration camp and known as "Death Island."

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

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

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

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

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

From neon green watering holes to bleached elephant foetuses, this Mozambique museum makes natural history weird.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.