Places StepYoshi Wants to Go

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

Windswept and remote, this island was once the home of a rare mammoth and today is home to a rare tree.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

A massive wintry wall of snow up to 66 feet tall flanks a highway through Japan's mountains.

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

Dramatic sea stacks adorn the coast of this small village on the Adriatic coast.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This museum in a shuttered train station remembers the island's forgotten rail system.

Large, airy hallways hide within an impenetrable fortress that beckons urban explorers.

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

Land that belongs to no nation.

A lush desert oasis in the shape of a narrow crescent.

Fascinating early attempt at a Jewish autonomous settlement.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

This unimaginably large pile of sand near Nazca is one of the tallest dunes in the world.

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.