Places atozenith Wants to Go

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

In one of the smallest countries in the world stands an original Salvador Dalí sculpture.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

Founded by members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, this one-room joint's James Beard–winning fry bread is light as a cloud.

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.

Some of New York's best tacos can be found in the back of an unassuming bodega in Queens.

Take Soviet nostalgia to new heights by toasting the first man in space over a full spread of Belarusian and Soviet fare.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

An expansive book store, art gallery, and curio shop with wares ranging from tarot cards to novelty socks.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

A legal loophole makes it possible to get away with murder within this 50-square-mile section of Yellowstone.