Places IrajV Wants to Go

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

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

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

To the famous surrealist artist, liberty required two torches held high.

Jean Tinguely's bizarre monster sculpture is hidden deep in a forest.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

César Baldaccini's iconic sculpture of a 40-foot thumb stands tall in La Défense.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Two awe-inspiring globes from the reign of the Sun King hang from the ceiling of France's national library.

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

Inside a former cabaret, seven floors of erotic art.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.

The largest lake in the Faroe Islands seems to be held hundreds of feet above sea level thanks to an optical illusion.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .