Places gwenleif Wants to Go

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

Eyam took steps to quarantine themselves and keep the plague from spreading.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A 6-mile-long lake created by an apocalyptic seismic event and the deadly chain reaction that ensued.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

An ocean in the making, in the Ethiopian desert.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

A village on the east coast of England that has almost completely eroded into the North Sea.

England's most notorious suicide spot.

Caves famous for the dragon-slaying saint who lived there.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

Ancient man-made caves underneath small town Belgium.

The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.