Places philippe gonzalvez Wants to Go

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”

This unreal Portuguese palace looks as though it's made from a pile of different castles.

This natural French spring has been turned into a magical grotto by Roman and medieval constructions.

This remote Himalayan temple is in danger of being completely washed away by a melting glacier.

This odd Chilean waterfall-cano hotel must be entered via a rope bridge.

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

Plains of ash and pair of semi-active volcanoes contribute to the otherworldly beauty of this little-known Vanuatu island.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

This medieval Italian town is a sheer (and beautiful) cliffside defense.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

The mysterious "Candelabra of the Andes" could represent anything from a god's trident to a hallucinogenic plant.

This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

This historic covered bridge contains a series of macabre paintings that communicate one thing: everyone dies.