Places etiennebara Wants to Go

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.

A forest full of mystical fantasy figures, nearly destroyed by recent fires.

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

According to the Guanches, the aboriginal people of the Canary Islands, the king of evil lives inside this volcano.

This reserve is the only place in the world where you can see the Barasingha swamp deer in the wild.

Woven tree art gives this towering Australian woodland a touch of mystical whimsy.

Nearly 100 concrete graves lie hidden just beyond the pristine waters along the coast.

This home on a quiet suburban street is completely covered with vibrant mosaics.

The basement bowling alley of this St. Paul dive bar is decorated with thousands of dollar bills.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

Scattered throughout London are ancient remnants of the city's former bounding wall.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?