Tchirozérine, Niger
Last Tree of Ténéré
The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Tchirozérine, Niger
The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.
Portland, Oregon
Delightful disarray of found objects and clutter.
Treen, England
A legendary rocking stone, returned to its clifftop perch.
Big Pine, California
Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.
Mounana, Gabon
The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.
East Sussex, England
England's most notorious suicide spot.
Pohang, South Korea
Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.
Yemen
The most alien-looking place on Earth.
Brazil
Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.
Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Lhasa, Tibet
Described as "the world's most blinging pool."
Aveiro, Brazil
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Buenos Aires, Argentina
This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.
Bolivia
On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.
Cleveland, Ohio
An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.
Tuttle, North Dakota
Only place outside China and India where two overhead DC power lines cross.
Antarctica
The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.
Guatemala City, Guatemala
An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Inyo County, California
The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.
Inyo County, California
"Only the devil could play golf here."
Nouméa, New Caledonia
Marvel of green building techniques that sings with the wind.
Ivankivs'kyi district, Ukraine
Sculpture that doubles as a time capsule so that life can survive radiation outside Chernobyl.