Places scoub Wants to Go

This tiny island in the South China Sea is crawling with venomous sea snakes.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Thermal springs at the bottom of this lake create beautiful blue circles of clay.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

One of the few places in the world home to living stromatolites.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Dunk your churros in rich hot chocolate on the city’s old “Chocolate Street.”

Pune's oldest ice cream parlor serves scoops in flavors like lemongrass.

This seasonal soft serve shack has been doling out silky swirls since 1951.

The two locations of this landmark ice cream shop scream pure Americana nostalgia.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

A lingering bit of Space Race nostalgia lies in the middle of the desert.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

A series of sculptures beneath the waves promote ocean conservation and support coral reefs.

Australia's largest collection of rare and bizarre insects.

This king penguin is a knighted brigadier of the Norwegian Army.

These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.