Places Erin Everywhere Wants to Go

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

This penis-focused monastery is dedicated to Buddhism's "Divine Madman."

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

Reputedly haunted sandstone necropolis with exquisite stone carvings.

The world's largest Tibetan refugee settlement.

The second-deepest known cave on Earth, hidden in an extremely remote mountain region.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

A small Rwandan workshop where you'll find traditional works of art—made from cow dung.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.