Rapa Nui, Chile
Pu o Hiro (Hiro's Trumpet)
In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Rapa Nui, Chile
In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.
Rapa Nui, Chile
This large round boulder is said to emit spiritual power, but it may just be magnets.
Antarctica
An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.
King George Island, Antarctica
Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.
Antarctica
The birthplace of the very first human resident born in Antarctica.
Grytviken, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.
Adak, Alaska
America's smallest "national forest" has only 33 trees.
Yakutsk, Russia
The coldest city in the world.
Khangalassky District, Russia
A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.
Mirny, Russia
The world's second-largest excavated hole.
Kyrgyzstan
This mysterious complex of abandoned yurts and fading murals was meant to be a center of science and spirituality in Kyrgyzstan.
Nunavut
Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.
Inuvik, Unorganized, Northwest Territories
These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.
Denmark / Canada
A long-disputed island that Denmark and Canada claim by periodically alternating flags and bottles of liquor.
Baffin, Unorganized, Nunavut
The third-largest island in Canada is one of the remotest places on Earth.
Greenland
A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.
Nunavut
The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.
Thule, Greenland
Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.
Devon Island, Nunavut
The closest thing to Mars on Earth.
Baffin Region, Nunavut
Over 400,000 birds spend their summers nesting on this small Arctic island.
Nunavut
The remote graves mark the mysterious deaths of four 19th century explorers.
Tarakaniv, Ukraine
This hidden fortress has been coined the "City of Ghosts."
Klevan, Ukraine
This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.
Chornobyl, Ukraine
The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.