Places mariska135mm Wants to Go

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The massive steel ring looks like it could be China’s first Stargate.

Shop while you wait for a table in this tiny Indonesian eatery within a mini-mart.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

You can soak in three relaxing pools filled daily by the tide.

The costumes depict the Kurent, the star character of the annual Kurentovanje festival.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

A huge communist-era propaganda monument and mural that offers stunning views of the Mongolian capital.

This sprawling market is a one-stop shop for traditional Kazakh foods, from mare’s milk to sheep’s head.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

An entertainment center in a huge transparent tent.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

Submerged trees jut ghost-like out of an idyllic turquoise mountain lake.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

The largest dam in the world and the site of a potential disaster.

The ancient ruins of an extinguished city amidst the bustle of a modern one.

The runoff from these fiery cliffs sends red water flowing into the sea.