Places heidin617 Wants to Go

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Seventeen oak trees sprout from the roof and walls of this tiny chapel without any visual evidence of roots.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Centuries-old bridges grown from tangled roots.