Iceland
Kerið Crater Lake
This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Iceland
This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.
Farmington, New Mexico
Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.
Paris, France
A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Where beautiful signs live on forever.
Portland, Oregon
Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.
Los Angeles, California
This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.
Vienna, Austria
The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.
San Francisco, California
Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.
Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland
The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.
Prague, Czechia
Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
London, England
This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.
Page, Arizona
A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.
Schiphol, Netherlands
It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.
Kyoto, Japan
Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.
Leavenworth, Kansas
This quaint museum lets you take a ride on its antique carousels.
Catas Altas, Brazil
This neo-Gothic monastery offers a rare chance to witness the unique maned wolf right up close.
Tangub City, Philippines
An annual festival full of illuminated replicas of iconic landmarks from around the world.
Lille, France
Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.
Caerphilly, Wales
The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.
Lynn, Massachusetts
At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.
Serenje, Zambia
Zambia's smallest national park is home to one of the world's largest annual mammal migrations.
Punta Arenas, Chile
A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.