Places ruii Wants to Go

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

A Swiss man built this airstrip for aliens because a UFO captain telepathically told him to.

A toxic lake near a volcanic caldera that is home to flamingos and other life.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

On an island south of Iceland, a large volcanic rock formation resembles an elephant.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

Puffin enthusiasts flock to Europe's largest seabird cliff, which over one million birds call home.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

A formerly glacier-tipped volcano that inspired none other than Jules Verne.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

The oldest (maybe) swimming pool in Iceland is a stunning oasis built into the side of a lush hill.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.