Places etiennebara Wants to Go

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

Large-scale contemporary artworks tower over fields and lurk in forests around a Jacobean manor house.

This elegant carving of the Buddha guards a small Buddhist temple within a cave.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

A pyramidal marker where the borders of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet on top of Mount Roraima.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

Last stop before the top of the highest peak in the world.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

One of the world's largest pyramids stands within El Mirador, the "lost city of the Maya."

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

This small collection in the back of a shop is the only oddities museum in Saskatoon.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

A volcanic old faithful, Stromboli has been erupting continuously for the last 2000 years.

A world-class theater sits hidden in this remote town in West Iceland.

Only 68 people per day are allowed to visit this New Zealand bird-watcher’s paradise.

On special occasions, one of the world's tallest artificial waterfalls gushes down the side of this Chinese skyscraper.

At this museum in Iceland, visitors can sample fermented Greenland shark.

This steel frame is a skeletal mirage of a lost 16th-century stone building.

All that remains of a Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground in 1982.

The partially submerged ruins of a white marble quarry used in ancient Greece for over 1,200 years.