Places simonele Wants to Go

A poignant memorial shows the widows and children left heartbroken by the worst fishing disaster in Scottish history.

A sulfuric hellscape in southern Italy.

This Cuban town sets the sky on fire around Christmas each year.

Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

A nondescript dirt lot hides an intriguing center of shamanic healing.

This gnarled old tree supposedly sprouted from seeds kept in the pocket of a 16th-century Spanish sailor.

This enchanting 600-year-old tree is so magical it inspired the beloved tale of Pinocchio.

This exceptional home was a 32-year labor of love by a man determined to build his wife the most beautiful stone house in the world.

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.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Protected from the elements, these Native American rock paintings have survived approximately 250 years.

The cultural center preserves the history of the Tlingit tribe, who have lived in this Alaska village for more than 10,000 years.

Thousands of artifacts tell Mongolia's military history, from the Bronze Age to the present.

A deserted island in southwest Japan that once sheltered persecuted Christians.

This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Miles of man-made caves and tunnels are currently used for cultivating mushrooms.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.