Places Samir S. Patel Wants to Go

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

Fish raining from the sky are the cause of a yearly celebration in this small Honduran town.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

The Art Deco artwork depicts gilded carriers of deadly illnesses.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

A monument to Malchik, a stray dog who lived in a Moscow metro station until his tragic death.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Hundreds of stones dangle from barren trees in the middle of the desert.

One of the world's largest salt caves is filled with fragile salt sculptures, salt rivers, and huge salt megadomes.

Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.

This ruined fortress was the stronghold for a persecuted medieval leader and his infamous Assassins.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

This medieval sanctuary's tree-framed door looks like a portal to a mythical realm.