Places EDanryd Wants to Go

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

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Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

"Stairs of the Turks", a chalky white cliff eroded conveniently into stairs, allowing for easy pillaging.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

Hundreds of tiny dead butterfly eyes gaze down at diners in this Australian eatery.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.