Places embentley1 Wants to Go

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

Mosaics, storks, and brothels—this ancient city has it all.

This abandoned plantation was once witness to an eclipse that proved Einstein's theory of relativity.

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

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

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

High atop a Mexican rainforest mountain, this ancient pyramid once drew pilgrims countries away.

Over 2,000 ancient temples dot the Myanmar landscape at the site of this famed archaeological site.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

This crumbling Portuguese ruin overlooks the populace it once ruled.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

Museum dedicated to wax representations of disfiguring diseases.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The tallest outdoor elevator in Europe rockets passengers on a dizzyingly precarious ride to the top of a mountain.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.