Places Donna McColl Wants to Go

Under the desolate and windswept northern coast of Barbados stands a small oasis filled with sea anemones.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

This tiny museum hidden above a restaurant houses thousands of modern and traditional kites.

This quirky museum has a collection of more than 15,000 bobblehead dolls.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

A sanctuary for sickly, stray, or wounded donkeys.

Part home garden, part sculpture field, part pseudo-science experiment, a trip to this place will leave you wondering if sea water isn't actually the elixir of life.

This lake with an inactive volcano underneath is often said to be bottomless.

A tree so massive it claims half the road, standing at the intersection of history and folklore.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.

Thermal springs underneath the seabed provide the heat and bubbles for these beachside natural hot tubs.

On a small island in the Caribbean, a statue of Napoleon's first wife has been beheaded and covered in red paint.

A haunting memorial to Africans kidnapped and lost at sea during the slave trade.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

A volcanically-heated waterfall in the St. Lucian rainforest.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

An abandoned lighthouse located on the cliffs of Barbados.

A Barbados crypt where it's said that the coffins refuse to stay put.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.