Belize
Great Blue Hole
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Belize
A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.
Chapayal, Belize
This massive Maya archaeological site is home to the tallest man-made structure in Belize.
Wallachia, Romania
The legendary cliffside castle of three-time Voivode of Wallachia, Vlad the Impaler.
Mauritania
On a secluded beach is one of the few shipwrecks left on the shores of Mauritania.
Songo Mnara Island, Tanzania
Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.
Nardò, Italy
A fascist-era rural village abandoned since the early 1980s.
Kansas City, Missouri
Community bookshelf of 25-foot-tall book spines.
Chedglow, England
Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
A tunnel that brings more than a century of history to life from the deepest parts of the Niagara Gorge.
Boston, Massachusetts
An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.
Signal Mountain, Tennessee
Live long and prosper in Tennessee.
Bronx, New York
Seriously good slices of Sicilian pizza lurk at the back of the Bronx's oldest enclosed market.
Magelang, Indonesia
Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.
San Bernardino County, California
The most isolated mailbox in America lets desert travelers record their passing.
Dresden, Germany
When the rain falls, this drain system turns into a musical instrument.
Narusawa-mura, Japan
A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest."
Fujinomiya-shi, Japan
A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.
Narusawa, Japan
One in a pair of subterranean caves created by an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji.
Hayakawa, Japan
The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.
White Lake, Michigan
Once the extravagant escape of the Ford family, this enigmatic ruin now stands as a haunting reminder of its former glory.
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.
Boulder, Colorado
This unassuming building houses one of the world's most extensive collections of cars created by automotive legend Carroll Shelby.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.