Places SamanthaLowen Wants to Go

Partially collapsed lava tube and cave system complete with concert hall, underground pond, and unique albino crabs.

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Kenyan restaurant is a carnivore's paradise, serving exotic meats at its ultimate 'Beast of a Feast.'

The world's second largest single-dish radio telescope, once used to contact E.T.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.

The largest cave shaft in the world is home to thousands of birds and popular with BASE jumpers.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

Beautiful public park off the beaten path and away from tourists.

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

Hindu temple of the dead home to hundreds of long-tailed macaques.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.