Places jcommerford Wants to Go

This monument memorializes a violent massacre where colonial police killed 50 striking dockworkers.

During the dry season, this white-sand beach hosts thousands of breeding butterflies.

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.

A half-century-old handmade dim sum joint opens daily at 3:00 a.m.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

Although it appears much older, this castle-like tower is actually a Georgian-era folly.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

Legend says this remote, “bottomless” lake was created by a curse.

The best-preserved example of a unique structure in Nubian architecture.

This museum dedicated to cartography is housed in a former 17th-century convent.

This picturesque monastery at the base of a cliff is a peaceful oasis open to all visitors.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

An untouched lava tube accessible to the adventurers.

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

An English brewery transported to North Korea.

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.

An active seahorse farm is currently saving Tasmania's handfish from extinction.

A train ride to the middle of nowhere gives its passengers some of the most iconic views of Japan's seasons.

The oldest of its kind in the country, this tree sits where formerly enslaved people are said to have founded the city of Freetown.

This once-booming oil city is now a relic of the region's industrial past.

The remains of a Zoroastrian temple that bore witness to a time when Aden was a flourishing trading hub.

This national park is home to unique vegetation known as woodland savannah.

This fort dates back to 1588 and was colonized by the Portuguese, Dutch, and English and sits prominently on the Indian Ocean where azure water lap the coast.

The largest Roman amphitheater in the Balkans once held over 20,000 people, but managed to lay hidden for hundreds of years.