Places daveschaaf Wants to Go

A three-tiered waterfall plummets from a mountain cave with amazing views over the countryside.

Perched atop the highest hill in Cartagena, this 17th-century convent offers spectacular views of the city.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

Enchanting cave with a river crashing through the roof.

The Andean town where every single building is decorated with a brightly colored frieze.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

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

After the famous composer died in Paris, his sister snuck his heart out of the country to honor his wish that it be buried in their native country.

This Nazi ruin was the site where Hitler was almost blown up by a suitcase bomb.

An underground city of salt.

Real bones which are said to have belonged to a Polish dragon.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.