Places Rin Wolfe Wants to Go

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

The souls of the dead have made these Ghanese crocodiles shockingly docile.

The true jewel of Africa's west coast known as "Africa's Last Eden."

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

The hottest place on the planet.

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.

The largest known Ancient Egyptian obelisk.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

A massive work of modern art that appears to be a crop circle in the middle of the desert.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Spanning over 10,000 square miles, this ancient salt pan is one of the largest on the planet.

Wondrous stalactites house thousands of bats in these African caves.

This temple is steeped in local folklore involving a teakettle and a raccoon dog.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

These Japanese ruins have been brought back to life with elaborately recreated buildings.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

"Singing sands" and the world's largest hourglass reside near Japan's Kotogahama beach.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.