Places mariska135mm Wants to Go

In her ancestral home, one chef preserves ancient Filipino recipes and serves up traditional, home-cooked food to history-loving foodies.

Hidden deep within a Filipino jungle is an incredible waterfall that plunges into a dazzling blue-green pool.

Five miles of underground river link lake to ocean.

The ruins on a deserted tropical island in the Philippines bear the scars of WWII.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

The once-grand remains of this resort are slowly turning into the strange ruins of the future.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

A patch of Philippines forest devoted to saving the lives of an emotionally sensitive species of googly-eyed primates.

A magically clear, blue river that seems to spring from nowhere.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

An ornate tomb pays tribute to one of the most influential and cherished military leaders in Vietnam's history.

This French colonial post office is arguably the grandest in all of Southeast Asia.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

This century old flensing port is a remnant of a culture for whom whaling is still legal.

These eclectic homes nestled into the cliffs of a Caribbean island were built entirely from scavenged materials.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

Starting with nothing more than discarded conch shells, one man has built an island/bar that would make Jimmy Buffet jealous.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

In the middle of the desert, miles from any human life, sat an anomalous pay phone that still magically answers your calls.

This dormant volcanic crater has been converted from a roiling pit of magma to a pleasant hiking spot.