Places Egao Wants to Go

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

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

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

Rare documents, old instruments, and gruesome specimens showcase the history of military medicine.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

Nuclear waste experts study this prehistoric crater lake to envision landscapes one million years in the future.

A beautiful Arctic museum and nature center preserves the culture of the Sámi people.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A miniature train-ride through Slovenia's largest cave system.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

This one-time health resort was used by aristocrats around the world.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.