Places Chris Wants to Go

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

This tiny, tranquil Senegalese island serves as a powerful symbol of the Atlantic slave trade.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

Source for a sizable portion of Egypt's freshwater supply is more than an optical illusion.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

This ancient structure is widely thought to be the oldest intact pyramid in the world.

These Egyptian statues have survived for 3,400 years and were an acoustic wonder of the ancient world.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

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

Vietnam's largest Buddha statue depicts a female sage.

One of Vietnam's most iconic landmarks was built by Japanese traders and is now in danger of sinking.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.