Places cathm Wants to Go

Aboriginal artists carved these unique figures into sandstone.

Legend has it these caves were created by a deity called Ogba, who is said to live inside the winding subterranean caverns.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

The only natural gorge in metropolitan Tokyo, with lots of greenery and ancient burial chambers.

A picturesque (all-natural!) beach in a landlocked state.

A collection of nearly 5,000 yokai-themed toys, sculptures, and more, dating from the 1700s to the present day.

The ruins of a prehistoric village hide on a remote Taiwanese island.

An eclectic temple with Chinese architecture, Korean lion-dogs, an Indian god and a legendary 700-year-old tree.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

The sand is such a bright white that on sunny days you practically need sunglasses to look at the ground.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Singapore's landscaping project is home to 18 incredible Supertrees.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.