Places Rogier Wants to Go

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

This unusually shaped mountaintop tower looks like a UFO floating over the city.

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

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

This spectacular mosque houses the second-largest chandelier in the world.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Along the most northwestern point in Africa is an ancient cave surrounded by legends.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

The longest and widest floating bridge in the world.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

A forest park outside Tallinn full of architectural and artistic curiosities.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

It took 40 years to build this Eden-like garden in Marrakech, later restored by Yves Saint-Laurent.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

The largest salt farm in the Canary Islands is located at the foot of an active volcano.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

This enormous World War II relic is one of the largest wooden structures in the world.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.