Places mustermurk Wants to Go

An exceptional assortment of fossils recovered from private collections.

A magnificent place to see authentic paleolithic cave paintings that are an astounding 33,000 years old.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.

Giant pagoda houses the car that drove Thích Quảng Đức to his death by self-immolation.

Learn to make this village's specialty: volcanic mud tofu.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Designed as a labyrinth, this subterranean prison was crafted without bars or doors.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

A poem by Arthur Rimbaud is inscribed on the wall of a street that, while it is only one block long, plays a key role in multiple novels.

The walls of this medieval church are covered with perfectly preserved frescos, including a pristine example of the Dance of Death.

Eat your way from Ghana to Myanmar on this globe-trotting menu.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Enormous sandstone towers loom within a Czech forest.

The abstract sandstone rock formations at this Algerian national park are rich with prehistoric art.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

Take a ride back in time with a steam locomotive trip through Eritrea’s mountainous countryside.

This collection of ancient, mountaintop, underground tombs was once hidden by decades of bloodshed.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

The enormous appendage offers spectacular views of Colombia's Huila Department.

This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

Land that belongs to no nation.