Banos, Ecuador
Swing at the End of the World
A swing to dangle you off the very edge.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Banos, Ecuador
A swing to dangle you off the very edge.
Galway, Ireland
While only two of the ancient buildings at this site are actually churches this was one of the earliest Irish pilgrimage sites ever.
Sutton, Massachusetts
This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.
Pescadero, California
Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.
New York, New York
New York City's smallest piece of private property.
Savannah, Georgia
Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.
Arinj, Armenia
She asked for a potato cellar and over the next 23 years he gave her a network of holy caves.
Darwin, Australia
Visitors can swim with vicious predators in Crocosaurus Cove's plastic daredevil enclosure.
Kediri, Indonesia
Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.
Khndzoresk, Armenia
Right up until the 20th century this network of man-made caves was the biggest village in Eastern Armenia.
Skhtorashen, Azerbaijan
Local legend says that whoever burns down this 2,000-year-old tree will only have seven days to live.
Nara, Japan
The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.
Esmeralda County, Nevada
This tiny cluster of abandoned buildings looks like the future of the ghost town - today!
Gablenz, Germany
This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.
Kidderminster, England
Built by the patron saint of illusionists this Elizabethan manor house is riddled with secret cubbies for hiding priests.
Newberry Springs, California
The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.
Dubrovnik, Croatia
This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.
Puerto Río Tranquilo, Chile
Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.
Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil
After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.
Godalming, England
The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.
Ennetbürgen, Switzerland
The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.
Panguipulli, Chile
This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.
Hong Kong
A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.
Gerlach, Nevada
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.