Places Nienna Wants to Go

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

Nature's slip and slide.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

Conifers from the Jurassic Period transformed into stone in Patagonia.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Museum housed in underground tunnels that date back to Buenos Aires's earliest settlements.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A gateway to a mysterious network of underground tunnels.

A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.