Places mariska135mm Wants to Go

An asymmetrically spiraling tower perched on top of a protected mountain.

A 19th-century California philanthropist is entombed beneath the telescope he funded.

A rugged hike leads to a breathtaking waterfall, once thought to be the tallest in Iceland.

See an anatomy teaching collection assembled in the 1920s and 1930s.

Thousands of rare and sculptural desert plants are cultivated in a surreal, open-air landscape unlike anything else on Mallorca.

Under a breathtaking Buddhist temple in Vietnam is a basement exhibit that takes visitors to hell and back.

In the garden of a Georgia museum, without any explanation, is a monumental head of the Communist icon.

These unique and ever-changing caves are a wonder of Iceland.

Iguanas roam in a lagoon inside a volcanic crater that erupted more than 2200 years ago.

Cages that once displayed the bodies of executed leaders hang from a German church tower.

Abandoned British military fortifications, slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Only seven masters are keeping the tradition of Hong Kong’s vanishing neon signs alive.

A half-century-old handmade dim sum joint opens daily at 3:00 a.m.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

This metal tower in the desert provides views of a handful of Nazca geoglyphs.

The antique vehicle is a preserved relic of Chile's nitrate mining industry.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

This high-Andean reserve protects the graceful vicuña that was nearly hunted to extinction for its precious wool.

In the most arid desert on the planet, the world's leading telescope allows astronomers to see more than has ever been seen before.

These steeply terraced ruins are a stop along the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.