Places embentley1 Wants to Go

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

This stream-carved gorge has inspired poets, hidden smugglers, and trained soldiers, all without losing its beauty.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

Europe's second largest ossuary wasn't discovered until 2001.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

The walls and ceiling of this Polish church are decorated with thousands of skulls, with another 21,000 skeletons just below.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.