Places pipeafcr Wants to Go

This collection of ferns from across the globe is the largest assortment in the United States.

Meant to be one of the most extravagant hotels in the world, now an eerie, abandoned architectural gem in Mexico City.

This Oaxacan town is known for its colorful fantastical creatures hand-carved by local artisans.

This maximum-security prison was abandoned to make way for a national park.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

The world's only pure blue lizard lives exclusively on this secluded tropical island.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

This small city park is best known for the nightly convergence of thousands of shrieking parakeets.

Colombia’s only monument erected to mark the end of slavery in the former Republic of New Granada.

An enchanting rocky island of scraggly baobabs surrounded by an ancient sea and sprawling salt pans.

The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Only gap in the 30,000-mile span of roads called the Pan-American Highway.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."