Places kickthegrind Wants to Go

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

A glass and sculpture wonderland forms an oasis in a remote part of Kenya.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

Five miles of underground river link lake to ocean.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The subtle interplay of fire and water is hard to ignore at this remote Jamaican spring.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

On the small Thai island of Ko Mak, there is a forgotten garden of erotic statuary.

Abandoned soda factory on a Cambodian roadside in a state of beautiful decay.

Limestone caves in the Cambodian countryside, once the site of genocide, now a place of peaceful beauty.

On stormy days debris from this unfinished and abandoned skyscraper rains down on the Bangkok streets.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

These Honduran caves earned their magical nickname thanks to reflective bone deposits.