Places mariska135mm Wants to Go

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

Oddly shaped rock formation, misassociated with a nearby utopian community.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

The largest island on the great salt lake is home to curious creatures and strange stories.

This fairy-tale, neo-Gothic church in the Azores is a world of magical realism.

Bits of flat terrain surrounded by cliffs make one of the most beautiful landscapes in the Azores.

Rainwater transformed this old quarry into a peaceful pond you won't find in most tourist books.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

This historic electric train has operated with regularity since the early 1900s.

The formidable fowl can be found standing near an isolated hiking path.

This unique bed and breakfast was first constructed during the 1800s by a Russian immigrant family.

An open-air museum showing how people on El Hierro lived from the time of the first settlers until the late 20th century.

An icon of International Style architecture on the outskirts of Rotterdam.

Behind this pair of dragon trees, there is a tragic story of lost love.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The remains of a former colonial fort on a stretch of beach that is occasionally visited by crocodiles.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Eat like pre-Columbian Native Americans in this New Mexico restaurant within the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

This slightly spooky yet nostalgic theme park claims to be the first of its kind in Australia.