Places daratheodora Wants to Go

Humble beginnings for one of the world's most famous scientists.

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

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

Crumbling necropolis set high above Fez.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

Founded as a refugee camp, now a popular tourist spot.

Numerous impressive carvings are embedded in the trees lining this street in Marrakech.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.

An unsettling painting of three faceless sisters that is surrounded by history and legend.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

This Italian stadium makes liberal use of fascist statuary to evoke classical sporting arenas.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.