Places gwenleif Wants to Go

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

The mental institution where Van Gogh created some of his most famous work now allows guests to walk in the artist's footsteps.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall."

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Once thought to be the Garden of Eden it holds a holy footprint claimed to belong to Adam, Buddha and Shiva.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

While not Turkey's deepest underground city, this subterranean redoubt is the largest.

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.