Places Jochen Duckeck Wants to Go

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

This church carved into the rocks is full of enchanting stone statues.

The site of Japan's first major environmental disaster.

One of the few places in the world home to living stromatolites.

Giant lamp houses the tourism information center.

The longest manmade tunnel in Queensland is now a beautiful trail, home to a special colony of bent-wing bats.

World War II ended before these tunnels built to protect vital oil from Japanese bombs were ever used.

Many rock climbers have come to conquer this slender sea stack, with various degrees of success.

Asbestos pit mine abandoned in 1983 is still dangerous thirty years later.

The 25-million-year-old cavities have perplexed people for decades.

These naturally occurring but rare geological formations are each about the size of a small house.

Curious crater remnants in the middle of the Australian outback.

The first tourist attraction to offer tours for interstellar tourists.

This abandoned railroad tunnel is now home to a micro-colony of bats and a ghost train.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

These Australian rock formations look like Martian beehives that have grown up out of the landscape.

A wonder of natural limestone formations etched by millions of years of natural interaction between rainfall and rock and air.

Clusters of huge boulders in the Australian Outback.

White cockroaches and other cave species occupy this massive series of lava tubes.

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.

An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.