Places novalinne Wants to Go

Where sweethearts leave their love locks in the Uruguayan capital.

The design of the Palacio Salvo has been described as "a lighthouse on top of a building."

Curated with the cooperation of the passengers and their families, this museum tells the story of the 29 victims and 16 survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571.

This park is home to around 500 bird species.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

Uganda's smallest savannah park is home to over 350 species of birds and mammals.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

Stay in your own little bubble.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

This famed Silk Road oasis was one of the largest cities in the world before it was destroyed by a Mongol horde.

Sumptous memorial to a controversial independence.

A huge monument to a bizarre book written by Turkmenistan’s longstanding dictator.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

This harsh mountain path was built as a strange attempt to improve the health of Turkmen citizens.

The controversial final resting place of the equally controversial first president of Turkmenistan.