Places mariska135mm Wants to Go

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

An unrecognized micronation declared by Greenpeace to protect the glaciers of Chile.

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

This Japanese-inspired labyrinth of hot springs is hidden in a Chilean forest.

A beautiful deserted greenhouse in the middle of a park.

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

A monument hidden in the woods built in 1938 as a getaway for a Dutch museum curator.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

Berlin's old airport.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

This World War II bunker now survives as a documentation of the Nazi regime and war crimes.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.