Places eleskog Wants to Go

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

Remnants of the most densely packed city in world history, that thrived on anarchy for 30 years.

An underground city of salt.

One man's attempt to create an artistic wonder on a run-down block in Detroit.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Stockholm's decidedly unique public transit system has doubled as the world's longest art gallery for decades.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

North Korea's massive "hotel of doom."

This attraction was abandoned after the Chornobyl disaster.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Historic psychiatric asylum and most-filmed location in the Great White North.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.