Places semken Wants to Go

Known as the "Valley of the Moon," this Jordanian wadi is one of the most amazing desertscapes on Earth.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

A mining town once rife with murderous disputes over its copious treasures now creates income as a popular spot for photo shoots.

Sometimes called the “Little Golden Gate," this bright yellow structure is the last driveable suspension bridge in Arkansas.

This small canyon is home to a treasure trove of geological oddities.

These rugged, color-stained mountains hold the secrets of the Kazakh desert.

This sandstone marvel of nature is worth a stop along Highway 65.

Led Zeppelin wrote some of their most iconic songs at this little 18th-century Welsh cottage.

This water-powered cliffside railway is one of the steepest funiculars in the world.

One man's love affair with this Mediterranean country has been turned into a work of whimsical delight.

Taos Pueblo recipes, foraged ingredients, and outdoor ovens define the menu at this eatery.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The statue's head is one of the few fragments of the original Urakami Cathedral to survive the atomic bomb.

An incredibly salty lake inside the crater of an extinct volcano.

Once a bustling fishing village and trading post, today these Cape Verde ruins provide a home only for seabirds and turtles.

The old ceramics factory on Boa Vista shows the power drifting sand has to destroy buildings.

Rolling sand dunes of the Sahara... in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Bangkok's take on the High Line is a park on a traffic bridge above the iconic Chao Phraya River.

Around the perimeter of San Francisco’s second-largest park is a meandering 2.7-mile path designed to inspire contemplation.

Local legend has it that the Devil's claw marks are etched into this distinctive rock.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

A huge boat-shaped hotel with a blood red pool and other oddities.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.