Places mariska135mm Wants to Go

This unassuming bookstore in the heart of Madrid is one of the oldest in Spain.

This 50-foot-deep sinkhole created in the 14th century is home to rare plants and fungi.

Ancient mysterious ruts carved in the bedrock.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

Overshadowed by other, more famous Maltese catacombs, this ancient burial chamber has one of the best examples of a ritual agape table.

A British general, a suggestive tree, a map of paradise.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

In the middle of a busy residential neighborhood, a small roofless church being reclaimed by nature.

Only two of these trees remain in the natural world, found high in the cloud forest of the island of Mauritius.

A commemoration of the first Dutchman to reach Japan, whose name still echoes in the heart of Tokyo.

A hidden gallery exhibits intricate, decades-old Buddhist reliefs.

A small laundromat covered wall-to-ceiling with portrait drawings.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A hard-to-reach oasis in a desolate corner of Death Valley National Park.

Depending on the region's rainfall, this church may be partially submerged.

This remote church calls a tiny island its sanctuary.

It's unclear what caused the fire that led to this opulent hotel's demise.

Stone pillars and a petrified wedding party in the hills of North Macedonia.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

Walk through the history of a Dutch truck manufacturer, from 1928 to today.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.