Places Shiv Wants to Go

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

This elegant carving of the Buddha guards a small Buddhist temple within a cave.

The oldest surviving glass furnace cone in Western Europe.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

An unassuming rod in the Netherlands was once the old standard unit of length for the entire Dutch empire.

The end appears to be nigh for the world's fourth-longest floating bridge.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

Volcanic rocks ground down into sand make this Spanish beach as black as night.

A rocky face gazes out over an enormous volcanic crater.

An ingenious solution to a tricky engineering problem, this spiraling bridge takes drivers for a dizzying spin.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

This cafe offers a curated collection of treats and tipples made by monks and nuns.

Never actually a tree at all, this spot was the site of London's public hangings for nearly 600 years.

From a distance, Latin America's first Baha'i Temple looks like an enormous egg perched atop a hill.

Iceland's first pagan temple in 1,000 years is underway in Reykjavík.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.