Places Pupuliini Wants to Go

A tree so massive it claims half the road, standing at the intersection of history and folklore.

Rare signs of the former Soviet Union in the Caribbean, though not where you'd expect them.

A violent name for a violent volcano.

Looking like nothing more than a cartoon deserted island, this tiny sandbar is home only to a single umbrella.

The larger of two volcanic peaks rising out of the crystalline waters of the Caribbean.

Come for the springs; stay for the mud bath.

A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.

This "floating island" plateau sits 7,671 feet above the forest floor.

A pyramidal marker where the borders of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet on top of Mount Roraima.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

One of the most remote and isolated villages on the Arabian Peninsula.

The remains of a medieval city loom in one of the most isolated desert regions of Turkmenistan.

Few people have ever heard of, let alone visited, one of Turkmenistan’s most impressive natural attractions.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

The ruins of an ancient Zoroastrian Tower of Silence believed to be the earliest example of the traditional funerary practice.

An abandoned Soviet-era mining town in the mountains of South Kazakhstan.

A Stalinist prison camp for the wives and children of men accused of betraying the Soviet state is now a memorial museum.

A sober museum housed in the original administrative building of one of Stalin's largest gulags.

This dark, damp, perilous tunnel is the only passage from north to south Tajikistan.

Where the father of Persian poetry is laid to rest.

Splashes of blue in an otherwise monotonous lunar landscape.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.