Places StepYoshi Wants to Go

The first island in the world designated a light-pollution-free astronomical observation point.

The final stronghold of a king whose feet never touched the ground.

The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

Now home to nothing but a weather station and a landing strip, a group of enslaved people were marooned on this tiny island for 15 years.

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

Remote, volcanic island that Darwin, Hooker, and the Royal Navy shaped into a thriving, artificial ecosystem.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

One of the smallest towns in the United States.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.