Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

The Canaima airstrip in Venezuela keeps an antique DC 3 plane in its camp.

Massive sinkholes on a mountain in one of the most remote places in Venezuela.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

The largest library in Latin America owes its existence to an Old World earthquake and a Napoleonic invasion.

Unusual rock formations eroded into a landscape of stone beasts.

After millennia of erosion by sand and churning water this Brazilian valley now looks like a lunar fantasy.

The haunting peak of an old church is all that remains of a drowned Brazilian city.

The bookstore with bookshelves built into unlikely places.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Part of one of the largest flooded cavities on the planet, and littered with prehistoric animal bones.

This stunning Brazilian library contains the largest collection of Portuguese texts outside of Portugal itself.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

Massive rock sculptures formed during the time of the dinosaurs still stand undisturbed.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.