Places caitlinfrunks Wants to Go

This house is one of the most colorful in the country, and is the last remaining example of a historic villa.

A micronation of epic proportions.

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.

An opal mining town in the middle of Australia where people live, worship, and shop underground.

A sparkling sandstone cliffside that's worth a visit while it still exists.

Australia's largest traditional hedge maze features a Great Gnome Hunt.

A massive stairway that almost wasn't leads to one of Australia's most scenic vistas.

A massive cave complex boasts some of the clearest water (and most charming bats) in the world.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

A Japanese shrine to dolls.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.