Places polaris Wants to Go

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

Mineral springs believed to hold therapeutic properties draw in visitors from all over.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

World's most expensive home.

Ancient Bronze Age rampart that was used into the middle ages.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

A cabinet of curious mathematical models and old calculators.

This short bridge is the only thing connecting a tiny Irish island to the mainland.

This Danish art forest places loud works of contemporary art among the pensive silence of nature.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

A Norwegian church that was built before Wisconsin was even a state has been entirely moved to a nicer spot.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.