Places remcrae Wants to Go

A Bohemian "anti-hotel" offers off-kilter stays in Sri Lanka.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

A collection of outdoor mystical statues paying homage to indigenous Australians and ecological stewardship.

The world's largest reclining Buddha, the Giant Buddha of Mudon.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

The bones of this aquatic dinosaur turned to opal over the centuries and the beast's remains were almost sold as jewelry.

One of Australia's largest secondhand bookstores.

An ancient rock engraving shows Aboriginals used their advanced knowledge of the stars to hunt and gather.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

Prehistoric park filled with the fossils of dozens of extinct species including Australian megafauna.

The largest collection of medicinal plants in Australia is also home to a witch who will show you how to use them.

The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.

Considered the most remote point in the entire world.

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

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

Museum dedicated to the sacred leaf of the Andes.

During this Bolivian festival/fair you can wish for wealth, success, love, and more by buying a miniature version of your desire.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

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

A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

Largest site of dinosaur footprints ever found includes more than 5,000 tracks.

One of only two civilian settlements in the desolate lands of chilly Antarctica.