Places danielluds Wants to Go

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

Home of the world's largest crocodile.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Australian museum dedicated to human health and lack thereof.

Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

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

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

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

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A monster in the plant world, up to 10 feet tall and smelling of death.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?