Places mikkitta Wants to Go

A desperate final message left by a POW on the run serves as a memorial for himself and the 97 that died with him.

A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.

A desert island with both a buried treasure and a famous castaway.

An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.

The world's largest aggregation of great white sharks is at a mysterious spot in the middle of the ocean.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

Ancient Peruvian fertility temple or modern money-making hoax? Either way these monoliths still look like penises.

Death rituals and sacrifice inside a Peruvian megalith.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.