Places diseasefire Wants to Go

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

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

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

This military mausoleum captures the solemn grandeur that most memorials only aspire to.

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

Bell tower juts out from a village buried under a lake.

The rusting remains of the largest assembled WWII fleet on the West Coast.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

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

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.