Places embentley1 Wants to Go

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

The second largest waterfall by volume in the U.S., Willamette Falls is outdone only by Niagara in the amount of water that is pushed northward.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

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

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

The only remaining collection of flayed figures made by French "madman" Honoré Fragonard.

A series of modernist treehouse hotel rooms grace the outskirts of an Arctic forest.

An Amazonian hotel is the ultimate treehouse and provides stilt based accommodation.

The world's first ice hotel is still one of the most elaborate and beautiful.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

A massive, heart-shaped, wind-carved crater in the middle of the Israeli desert.