Places gwenleif Wants to Go

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

Thousands of years of crashing waves gave this mushroom-shaped rock its svelte figure.

World's strongest whirlpool.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.

Walk behind a 50-meter-high waterfall.

Monuments don't get much more metal than these three giant viking swords planted in a Nordic hill.

A stunning silver lining to global warming's gloomy cloud.

A serpentine highway twists and turns over the treacherous Norwegian Sea.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

One man's exploration of the human form, including the bizarre and delightful "Man Attacked by Babies."

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Mounds, rune stones, and a 1,000-year-old church, left behind by Denmark's first two kings.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.