Places daratheodora Wants to Go

A perfectly preserved hill village where the buildings are painted like white lace.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

Two ancient Buddhist temples crown this dramatic rocky pinnacle.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

A remote hilltop covered in giant monoliths haunts the Brittany countryside.

An isolated 17th-century chapel on a remarkable site once dedicated to Celtic sun worship.

This unique temple complex remains off the typical tourist trail.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Abandoned ship reimagined as a street art canvas.

This charming wooden church was disassembled and moved not once but twice before settling in this Prague garden.