Places simonele Wants to Go

Open since 1690, this former teahouse makes “strength mochi” based on the centuries-old recipe.

Hang with reindeer at this 400-year-old Sámi market.

Explore a uniquely pristine Borneo forest, now protected by former headhunters turned tour guides.

The unique funeral practices of the Toraja can be seen here with graves carved into caves and hung off cliffs.

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

Where cemeteries are carved into the side of cliffs and infants are buried in the hollows of trees.

One of the largest caverns in the world has a maw large enough to stack cathedrals in.

In this Borneo cave, it's not the thousands of bats you need to worry about, it's the blankets of roaches.

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

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

This steamed rice crepe specialist has been rolling up its namesake dish for over 30 years.

These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.

In British Columbia, a unique microclimate has allowed these trees to live much longer than they usually would.

When North America was covered in ice, this was an oasis in the frozen desert.

A reconstituted ancestral village of the Huron-Wendat Nation.

The world’s first museum dedicated to exploring human rights unleashed a wave of controversy.

A sacred Ojibwe site covered in pictographs next to Lake Superior.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

A historic ghost town still worth a visit.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

Watch bison, elk, and other wild animals up close at this national park.

This massive and unusual rock formation near Okotoks is the world's largest known glacial erratic.