Places mooseontheloose Wants to Go

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

Danish children are taught that Santa lives in Greenland, at this exact cabin.

These eight mummies are the best-preserved human remains ever discovered in North America.

A hyper-remote desert cave dramatized in "The English Patient."

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

An endless sea of white conical domes.

This charming stone church on the shore of Lake Tekapo is an icon in astrophotography.

This ledge in Victoria Park served as a hiding spot for Frodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin.

Home to the unidentified remains of the 1979 Mt. Erebus Disaster.

A serene, almost spiritual place to do one's business. Who knew a public toilet could inspire and awe?

Leave a trinket at this artistic collection of mailboxes.

Taihape's claim to fame is a fictional Kiwi farmer wearing gumboots.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

Hundreds of toothbrushes hang from a wire fence along a quiet New Zealand road.

New Zealand's oldest prison holds a dark history and the scars of a deadly earthquake.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

Inside this faux cave, visitors can learn how some of their favorite fantasy characters were created.

A bronze kitty adorns the grave of the polar explorer who brought the original feline to the Antarctic.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.