Places atozenith Wants to Go

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

Southern Italy's spinning top village.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

This giant middle finger statue sends an unambiguous message to Italy's bankers.

The small peaceful island off the Venice tourist circuit is where the city began more than 1,500 years ago.

A labyrinth of ancient tunnels hidden below the city holds the ruins of 2,500 years of history.

The world's most delightful not-NOT-religion welcomes visitors to the town of Templin, just like its more stoic peers.