Places Gemfyre Wants to Go

This small museum celebrates the history of an Australian town known as the "Gateway to the Goldfields."

A metal skywalk leads to the top of this striking granite outcrop in Porongurup National Park.

The last vestiges of this ship are mostly buried beneath the sand dunes.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

No one knows exactly how deep the world’s deepest geothermal hot spring is.

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

The East Village tenement from the cover of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 album has a tea shop on the ground floor.

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

Climb and walk into the crater of one of the youngest volcanoes on Earth.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

The evolution of a simple creek cutting its way through an ochre mountain side.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

In 2018, Pohoiki Road was severed by lava flowing from the eruption of Kilauea.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

This hand-carved wooden carousel in the Story City North Park was built in 1913.

Now overgrown, these anti-tank barriers from World War II are sometimes called "dragon's teeth."

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Nine limestone rock stacks on Australia's "Shipwreck Coast."

Major tourist destination known for its bubbling mud-pools and hot thermal springs.

The once and future home of New Zealand's famed Pink and White Terraces.

Deadly scalding and one of the largest hot springs in the world.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.