Places lina Wants to Go

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

This giant boulder is pinched over a 1000-meter abyss by two mountains.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The ruins of an Estonian prison are drowning in the quarry lake where the convicts were once forced to work.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.