Places Samir S. Patel Wants to Go

Where giant ships go to die.

One of the largest and most scenic of Bangladesh's tea gardens.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Mysterious hillside with a continuously burning natural fire.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

Bowl in splendor, if you're lucky.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

This everlasting lightning storm may be the world's largest generator of ozone.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

Once thought to be the mysterious work of a witchy prophetess, a well with unusual properties turns objects into "stone".

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

A beautiful waterway tucked in the corner of a power plant.