Places Nicola B Wants to Go

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

This women-run eatery and cooking school is putting India's long-neglected tribal cuisines back on the menu.

This magnificent 18th-century hall consists of a maze of nearly a thousand interconnected passages.

This deserted palace is one of the finest examples of Indo-Islamic architecture in India.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

This reserve is the only place in the world where you can see the Barasingha swamp deer in the wild.

These medieval funerary monuments are now home to a colony of critically endangered vultures.

The world's largest human gathering is held at the confluence of three sacred rivers, one of which is mythical.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

The name of this ancient Indonesian temple translates as "Elephant Cave" but it could be more accurately called "The Hellmouth."

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

The unsettling remnants of a torn down movie set lies nearby the ruined location of the actual Płaszów Labor Camp.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.