Places nealkelso Wants to Go

Explore a traditional Albanian dwelling that pays tribute to the region's rich history.

An ancient Ethiopian cave church is endangered by the simple building of a road.

Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle with a 650-foot drop.

The hottest place on the planet.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

The world's largest dark sky preserve is a Canadian park established to preserve the country’s wood bison population.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

Once part of an ancient international harbor, it's now an all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet for flamingos and other water birds.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Nine caves filled with recently-discovered archaeological finds under the houses and the streets of the most ancient district of an old town.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.

The world's largest maze is a nature park with nearly 200 decision points.