Places greetdruyts Wants to Go

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

Hundreds of tree trunks and Welwitschia flowers populate this living fossil haven.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

The abandoned tanks along this highway are all that remain of a deadly conflict.

In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

Held in a fort that once stood for colonization of the area, this museum now tells the history of its indigenous people.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

This Canary island is a quintessential example of nature’s beauty, and its unbridled fury.

An untouched lava tube accessible to the adventurers.

A shrine-like museum entirely dedicated to soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

On the cliffs of São Jorge in the Azores stand the remains of a lighthouse that was struck by a series of earthquakes.

One artist's collection of homemade handicrafts doubles as a monument to 20th-century material culture.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

What looks like an ordinary house from the outside is actually a rotating sculpture.

This fairy tale forest hides scenes from some of the more obscure and bizarre Western nursery stories.

A dream-like maze full of strange art, surreal spaces, and fantasy landscapes to get lost in.