Places StepYoshi Wants to Go

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A sprawling nature preserve harbors the world's only living dragons.

Eurasia's most difficult place to hang out, and farthest point from sea access.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Underwater volcanic eruption forms new island off the coast of Tonga.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.

The cafe that acts as the social hub for the small volcanic island of HMS Bounty fame.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.