Places ariellemia Wants to Go

The world’s most biodiverse place when it comes to plants.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

According to one local legend, this image was created during a battle between a wild lioness and the archangel Michael.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

This nightlife venue and cultural center keeps a unique Ethiopian musical tradition alive in the nation’s capital, but breakneck urban development threatens to shut it down.

A monument to the migrants who cross the dangerous waters between North Africa and a tiny Italian island.

According to legend, after Hades pulled Persephone into the underworld, one of her attendant nymphs cried so much that her tears formed this spring.

Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.

A 15th-century granary that played the role of futuristic slave quarters in the world of 'Star Wars.'

Dive into an undersea optical illusion off the coast of Mauritius.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

At the foot of an active volcano sits a church miraculously spared by its lava.

See hundreds of herons and egrets in the heart of the city in this dreamy hidden park.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Inspired by the more famous Scrovegni Chapel, Cappella di San Giovanni contains several amazing frescoes.

This twisty section of highway in the Himalayan foothills is lined with thousands of small mirrors.

There's a lot of horsing around on this lonely stretch of Australian highway.

One of the largest statues in Israel was erected to protest pollution.

One of only three fountains created by the iconic architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

This 19th-century house museum features a horse-drawn hearse and other antique oddities.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.