Places Oops3ggs Wants to Go

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

The hottest place on the planet.

This cave located in the badlands of Somaliland contains some of the oldest cave art in Africa.

The world's largest bioluminescent area was undiscovered by science until 2005.

You can find more than 200 species of tropical plants at this garden owned by a former ambassador.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

A salt lake dotted with steaming limestone chimneys.

Rimmed by white crusts of salt on every edge, Lac Assal is one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world.

Take a ride back in time with a steam locomotive trip through Eritrea’s mountainous countryside.

The best-preserved example of a unique structure in Nubian architecture.

Crumbling pyramids and temple ruins stand within the shadow of this sacred butte.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

Remains of an abandoned coral city.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

The wreck of a World War II cargo ship has become an unintentional time capsule at the bottom of the Red Sea.

Underneath the Serapeum ruins lies a dark passage with nooks for books, the lesser-known “sister” to the famous ancient library.

This fortress was built using the last surviving stones from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

This 7th-century monastery was sacked by Saladin.

A hyper-remote desert cave dramatized in "The English Patient."

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.

It might not be the prettiest pyramid in Egypt, but it may be the muddiest.

Some believe that this ancient mural depicts technology far ahead of its time, but in reality it's nothing quite out of place.