Places hellogigi Wants to Go

A 90-foot-tall psychedelic "tree" on the side of the highway has baffled passersby for decades.

Despite sitting firmly in the global cradle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, this Hare Krishna temple is host to one of the largest color festivals outside India.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

A little bit Wonkatania, a little bit pink elephant.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

South Africa's postal service began with a letter left in a boot beneath this tree.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

This beautiful waterfall is not easy to reach, but offers a stunning view of the pristine green valley.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

A sobering account of the vibrant multicultural neighborhood that was destroyed under apartheid.

Largest cave system in Africa.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

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

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

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

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

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.

This beautiful system of tunnels built into natural rock serves as a centuries old plumbing system.