Places Ju An Wants to Go

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

As the highest point in the Mid-Atlantic range this stratovolcano offers spectacular views.

This abandoned, turn-of-the-century astronomy hub is now the subject of more photographs than it ever took.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

This breathtaking island on Rwanda’s Lake Kivu is a haven for thousands of fruit bats.

One of the capital's last independent milk bars remains a crucial community watering hole.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This ancient cave is home to a museum, bar, and is filled with fluorescent minerals.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

A breathtaking 19th-century trail overlooks Lake Tahoe.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.