Places ashleypinnick Wants to Go

This strange geological landscape erupts with sudden bursts of water.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

One man's dream has turned into this naturally growing chapel made of almost nothing but trees.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

The U.S. military dumped millions dollars worth of goods off a beach in Vanuatu, purely to spite the British and French.

The cutest shrine in Kyoto is dedicated to bunnies.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

This battleship of a building was designed by a famed "mad architect."

A 17th-century Shinto shrine that is home to statues of Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

A quaint amusement park now sits, rusting and forgotten among the foliage.

Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.