Places Nicola B Wants to Go

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

There's light and a dreamlike panorama at the end of this tunnel.

This giant mural of Santa Muerte in downtown São Paulo reminds passersby of their own mortality.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

Pickles belong on pizza and this freewheeling outpost proves it.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.

This shrine is dedicated to a symbol of the Maya people's struggle against inequality and injustice.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

Tucked among the sand dunes overlooking a Welsh beach, a real-life tribute to a fictional elf.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

In a rural Japanese town that has committed to sustainable practices, even the hotel is made from recycled materials.

In addition to showing films, this one-screen arthouse cinema from the late 1940s is a museum of old film equipment.

Four steel monoliths stand in the Qatari desert, in a breathtaking work of large-scale art by Richard Serra.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Named after an outlaw who used the basin as a hideout.

The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.

Nearly 300,000 acres of wildlife, natural splendor, and a hidden ghost town have been designated a national monument.

This former Mormon settlement is reemerging from the receding waters of Lake Mead.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.