Places leannatron Wants to Go

This tumultuous Icelandic lava field looks so alien European researchers want to use it as a stand-in for Mars.

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.

Poland's oldest surviving university building holds a wealth of historic science instruments including some used by Copernicus.

This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane.

Hundreds of stones dangle from barren trees in the middle of the desert.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

The tallest stationary dunes on Earth also happen to sing.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

This remote lake in Siberia supposedly contains a fearsome sea monster.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

The largest dinosaurs in the world, kissing above the highway.

Unusual, mushroom-like rock formations caused by weathering and water erosion, set to disappear, according to geologists.

A jagged silhouette of shamanistic stone heaps rises from the shore of this dazzling mile-high lake.