Places Isabellchik Wants to Go

The 43-mile route crosses through six islands with gorgeous views of the Seto Inland Sea.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

When the USA donated cement and funds to expand the airport in Laos, the Laotians built a massive monument instead.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

This 17th-century fort, built by the Dutch to control a piece of the international spice trade, is now a city park.

A lonely memorial to the 107 victims of Pan Am Flight 812, which crashed in Bali in 1974.

Of five volcanoes located in the massive Tengger caldera, this cone is the youngest and most active.

One of the holiest places in the region, devotees come to Tirta Empul to bathe in the holy spring water.

Concrete balls on wires constructed to stop train surfing in Indonesia.

One of Indonesia's tallest, this waterfall takes a 390-foot plunge into the Lake Toba caldera.

A striking series of six bridges connect islands in Indonesia.

In this Balinese village, coconut shells containing placentas are hung from trees.

Mount Tambora is the site of the largest and deadliest volcanic eruption in recorded human history.

After a 2004 tsunami, this stranded boat was left in place.

This mile-wide crater high in the mountains of Indonesia is the largest gold mine in the world.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.