Places pato1695 Wants to Go

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Week-long block party becomes a competition for the best decorated street.

Mine shafts and hard pastries await visitors at this massive mountain of salt.

An independent naturist colony amidst 1000-year-old ruins.

This narrow path was cut right into a French mountainside to feed the country's early naval expansion.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.

This abandoned mansion has a window for every day of the year, and is a temple for ghost hunters.

Bold black and white motifs of life and death add a dramatic flair to this 17th-century crypt.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

Considered the birthplace of the Copper Age and Bronze Age, the river is tinted red from 5,000 years of mining.

A garden in Lisbon filled with giant porcelain creatures.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

A submerged village appears when dam levels drop.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A salty red wasteland in Tanzania is a breeding spot for endangered flamingos.