Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The first outlet of Canada's biggest fast-food franchise has been slinging doughnuts since 1964.

The highest peak in Utah is the hardest to reach, but only if explorers choose the hard way.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Jurassic Park—A Still Life.

Inside this striking glass building, visitors can see thousands of dinosaur fossils in the positions that nature deposited them more than 150 million years ago.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

One of the tallest waterfalls in Africa is also home to a population of monkeys who enjoy the waters and the occasional guest.

Within the Dadès Gorge, amazing vistas and towering cliff faces can be seen at each new curve and bend in the road.

Fortune tellers, snake charmers, poets, and storytellers all gather on this historic square in Morocco.

A fortified city, home to a remaining population of five families

The world's largest concentrated solar power plant.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

An abandoned horror film set sits eerily along a highway through Hollywood's "door to the desert."

Exploring the wilder, more passionate sibling of Erg Chebbi feels like discovering a secret sun-kissed planet from another galaxy.

One of the most spectacular canyons in the world.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This stunning 15th-century royal hill fort preserves the age of chivalry in Rajasthan.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.