Antarctica
Marie Byrd Land
The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Antarctica
The largest piece of no man's land left on Earth.
Dunning, Scotland
A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.
Otsuchi, Japan
A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Cancún, Mexico
Underwater art project will double as a massive artificial coral reef to help regenerate the damaged ecosystem.
Tulum, Mexico
An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.
Cantwell, Alaska
Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.
Deline, Northwest Territories
Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.
Ithaca, New York
These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.
Mexico City, Mexico
A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.
Varstu Parish, Estonia
A trio of giant wooden megaphones turn up nature's volume in this Estonian forest.
Denver, Colorado
Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.
Dartmoor National Park, England
A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.
Moyenne Island, Seychelles
A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.
Kudahuvadhoo, Maldives
Fine dining 20 feet below the surface in the Indian Ocean.
Pembroke, Wales
A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.
Réunion
At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.
Saint Lunaire-Griquet, Newfoundland and Labrador
An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.
Webster, Massachusetts
It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!
Dolní Morava, Czechia
The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.
Tokyo, Japan
A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.
Grímsey, Iceland
The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.
Frederiksberg, Denmark
A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.
New York, New York
A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.