Places solarconstant Wants to Go

Hundreds of Buddhas in a re-discovered Indonesian temple.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

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

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

An ancient tower built during Roman times as a lookout post still stands to this day.

Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

An awe-inspiring mosque in Morocco with one of the tallest minarets in the world.

9th century Abbasid mosque, damaged in modern warfare.

Ice roads, deep holes and 3,500 pounds of diamonds.

Lonely minaret stump of a destroyed city.

More than 100 monumental tombs carved into rock are preserved at this ancient Nabataean site in the Arabian Desert.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Home to the deepest rift anywhere on Earth.

Bohemian paradise covered in majestic forests.

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

Historic medieval fortified city in southwest France.