Koror, Palau
Jellyfish Lake
An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Koror, Palau
An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.
Murmansk, Russia
The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.
Manacapuru, Brazil
An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.
Boden N, Sweden
A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Kansas City, Missouri
Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.
Vieques, Puerto Rico
The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.
Kaputar, Australia
The unique ecosystem atop an Australian mountain is home to some colorful inhabitants.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.
Junction City, Kansas
A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.
Hiroshima, Japan
A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.
Marshall Islands
An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.
Prypiat, Ukraine
The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Lexington, Oregon
Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.
Victoria Falls, Zambia
The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.
Khangalassky District, Russia
A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.
Mirny, Russia
The world's second-largest excavated hole.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.