Places StepYoshi Wants to Go

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

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

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

For millennia, explorers were obsessed with discovering the source of the Nile—is this small mountain stream really the answer?

This futuristic building is yet another architectural wonder in Dubai.

With only one flight in and out a week, the unfenced runway at this small island's airport transforms into a seaside park for locals and visitors.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

Wandering this ancient burial place offers a glimpse of the afterlife in the fresco-adorned tombs of an ancient Etruscan civilization.

A surprising number of shipwrecks visible just off the Somaliland coast.

Climb and walk into the crater of one of the youngest volcanoes on Earth.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.

This weird, elephant-shaped rock also hosts two ancient tombs.

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

A showcase of geologic history is home to one of the largest collection of lunar meteorites on Earth.

This ancient city was home to one of the greatest schools of Greek philosophy.

This uncanny fresco celebrating the "triumph of death" was split into four pieces to be moved to another museum.

Walk into an underground archeological dig, the site of the Roman Forum that was once the center of Valencia.

Tall columns of volcanic basalt make up this improbable-seeming rock formation.

An active seahorse farm is currently saving Tasmania's handfish from extinction.

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.