Places Michelle Cassidy Wants to Go

This sea-based blowhole releases seawater when waves hit the coastal caves.

A Gothic cathedral created from volcanic rocks.

Keen eyes can find the Disney influences throughout this treasure trove of a tiki bar.

View roughly 7,000 books amassed over decades by the author and avid bibliophile.

These spindly, stone-capped formations are the product of glacial deposits and thousands of years of erosion.

A KFC honors an eighth-century Chinese poet with holograms and verse.

A lovely look back at the manufacture and use of paper in all its forms.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

Europe's largest collection of matchbox designs is a fascinating exploration of the cultural history of the world.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Vast stretch of tide-pools with a unique Moroccan charm.

Every autumn, this grove of living fossils erupts in a blaze of brilliant golden-yellow leaves and stinky fruit.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

One of London's lost rivers runs through a pipe over the tracks of this subway station.

This aromatherapy shop and mini-museum cofounded by the Sigur Rós frontman documents Icelandic history through scents.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

"Bangkok's Green Lung," a large park on an island, feels worlds away from traffic-choked Sukhumvit Road.

Bird dung painted this huge boulder which in turn inspired the name of a city.

This abandoned Slovenian military barracks has become a punky-political art squat.

This small museum is dedicated to making sure the history of the natural ice industry doesn't melt away.

The little bear in the "funny kind of hat" has made his way from London back to Peru.