Places danielrthorne Wants to Go

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

Site of the largest volcanic eruption in the last 25 million years, one which may have nearly wiped out humanity altogether.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

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

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

World's strongest whirlpool.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Ancient cliffs resembling a kilt on Scotland’s second-largest island emit an entrancing sound.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

The massive gardens and office of a Brazilian sculptor.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

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.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

These mammoth-yet-narrow crevasses in the Earth are perfect for taking an otherworldly swim.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.