Places Erin Van Rheenen Wants to Go

Brawny guys rolling around in oil is the oldest regular sporting event besides the Olympics.

A mysterious ancient cemetery with Roman sarcophagi and Lycian inscriptions.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

This museum was invented in a novel before being made real by the author.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

Tour the original street level of Port Angeles, buried underground in 1914.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

The extensive collection of an amateur naturalist.

A Mars simulation in the southern Utah desert.

A small flooded ghost town with a few scattered structures remaining.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

A Barbary Coast watering hole built into a Gold Rush shipwreck.

The tea room that pushed the boundaries of adorable straight into... we can't find the words.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

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

An abandoned Ecuadorian prison that once held ex-presidents and notorious con artists is now a carceral museum.

The remains of an ancient settlement in one of the oldest archeological sites in South America.

An exotic jungle hideaway run entirely by indigenous Kichwa women.

This research hub in the Amazon Rainforest is perched amid one of the world's most biologically diverse landscapes.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.