Places chalicecoxhynd Wants to Go

One of the world's most unusual events combines headbanging and needlework.

Collection of nearly 500 concrete figures sculpted by the late Veijo Rönkkönen.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

A natural swimming hole that was once a ceremonial center for Mayan priests.

These enigmatic ruins continue to vex archaeologists.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

This portion of a lovely Belize beach is infested with (harmless) sharks and rays.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

An eccentric dictator's take on a Turkmen version of Disneyland.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

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

A cemetery with goat-horn bedecked gravestones.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

This funky former tobacco factory is one of the most striking examples of Madrid's cultural diversity.