Places adnoid Wants to Go

Ireland's most northerly island is hauntingly beautiful. Its lighthouse was the last glimpse of home for many Irish emigrants bound for the U.S.

Row through this enchanted narrow chasm whose stones are said to resemble dragon scales.

This magnificent natural sandstone bridge is one of the largest in the world and is an iconic symbol for Lake Powell.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

The rocks exposed at Valley of Fire State Park also occur in a much less known but equally spectacular area a few miles to the southwest.

A mile-long, three-tiered cave hidden under a Bahamian island, complete with cathedral-like formations, bat colonies, and graffiti going back to the 1870s.

The site of the earliest colonial settlement in the Bahamas started as a place of religious refuge.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

Carved through granite boulder fields and primeval forests, this roaring river valley once served as the secret naval training ground for the legendary Tay Son insurgency.

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.

This extremely remote border crossing was closed to prevent smuggling and looting.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

The Cape of Good Hope is not quite as low as you can go on the African continent, but it's still geographically significant.

This natural sea arch highlights Ireland's rugged coastal beauty.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

A natural bridge formed by limestone travertines in Armenia's Vorotan River Canyon.

At certain times in the fall and winter, the sunlight makes this natural sandstone arch glow.

This natural sandstone bridge hasn't been seen since the 1960s when Lake Powell covered it—until now.

The damming of the Colorado River buried an iconic geologic formation before record-breaking drought brought it back.