Places Iamsancho Wants to Go

A microcosm of the whaling industry in a small Australian town.

This store offers tastes of Aboriginal Australia, with some contemporary and global twists.

A perfectly preserved abandoned criminal asylum in South Australia.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.

Cockatoo Island is a Heritage-listed island in the middle of Sydney Harbour.

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The decommissioned submarine is now the symbol of a small, inland Australian town.

With a surface area of nearly 500 square meters, welcome to the world's largest paraboloidal dish solar concentrator.

The Gunditjmara Aboriginal people of Australia began construction on this vast aquacultural complex 6,600 years ago.

Lonely industrial sculptures in South Australia created by a mechanic turned artist.

Arcade chock-full of old timey, whimsical, hand-cranked automata and peepshows.

Final resting place for hundreds of prisoners of war.

The once-dying town of Sheffield, Tasmania has reinvented itself as a village of painted wonders.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.