Places Nicola B Wants to Go

A hidden tunnel leads to an abandoned slate quarry that's now a secret swimming spot guarded by cliffs.

A 4,500-year-old forest is slowly being revealed from beneath the sands of a Welsh beach.

This one-of-a-kind convent boasts a kaleidoscopic exterior of stars and double-headed eagles.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

Three sinkholes filled with warm, crystal-clear water reached by a horse-driven cart on an old train track through the jungle.

Its sunny hues are believed to have inspired the town's color palette.

A hacienda that features all things uniquely Yucatán.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

Since ancient times these picturesque springs have been providing bathers with healing waters.

A narrow, serpentine spit of sand is constantly eroded and rebuilt by competing currents.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

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

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

A coal fire has been burning underground here since 1896.

A shrine of fire worship built on top of a natural flame.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

This museum dedicated to local history is housed in the state's oldest surviving fire station.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

This igneous rock monolith towers above the surrounding landscape just outside the Nigerian capital.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).