Places Ars Wants to Go

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."

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

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

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

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