Places ckoohle Wants to Go

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

An abandoned stretch of elevated road in the middle of the Brazilian jungle.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Death road of Bolivia.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

Even King Tut was intrigued by the glass of the Great Sand Sea.

The site of many battles and tragedies, including the 40 maidens who leapt into the sea.

The unique ecosystem atop an Australian mountain is home to some colorful inhabitants.

A glittering South Asian anomaly in a wealthy Los Angeles suburb.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

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

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

This peculiar lake of pitch is so thick and viscous that one can walk on its surface.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

Popular river that runs through the remote Serbian municipality of Leskovac.