Places nickelcurry Wants to Go

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

At least seven hues of blue and turquoise make this freshwater lagoon unique.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

An Argentinian businessman facing terminal cancer built this whimsical medieval village using salvaged materials.

Trek up this glacier before it disappears.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Humboldt's human-powered sculptures race across land and sea for days on end in a wacky quest for dominance.

A lovely hidden waterfall right off the highway is well worth a stop.

Unparalleled stargazing, one of Colombia's best observatories, and a swimming pool can all be found in the middle of this ancient tropical forest.

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Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.