São Paulo, Brazil
Livraria da Vila
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
São Paulo, Brazil
The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.
São Paulo, Brazil
One of São Paulo's tight urban intersections has become a haven for graffiti artists ever since a single Batman started the trend.
Alto Paraíso de Goiás, Brazil
After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.
Bonito, Brazil
Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.
Vila de São Jorge, Brazil
These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.
Chamarel, Mauritius
This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.
Salazie, Réunion
Réunion Island's highest point is a two-million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.
Seychelles
Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.
Madagascar
This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.
Antsalova, Madagascar
Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.
Afar Zone 1, Ethiopia
An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.
Lome, Togo
The Voodoo Superstore of the world.
Assin South, Ghana
This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.
Venice, Italy
Venice's "Island of the Mad."
Venice, Italy
Venice's island of the dead.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.
Budapest, Hungary
A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.
Budapest, Hungary
Museum dedicated to the terror regimes of Hungary.
Budapest, Hungary
A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.
Putty, Australia
Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.
Bundoora, Australia
Dilapidated ruins that once treated a notorious young serial killer, currently hosting vandals, squatters, and ghost hunters.