Places StepYoshi Wants to Go

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

Site of James Cook's historic observations of the 1769 transit of Venus.

The longest fence in the world stretches over 3,000 miles to keep the dingoes out.

In a strange timezone anomaly, Daylight Saving Time here sets the clocks forward just 30 minutes.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

This historic observatory contains the world's oldest refracting lens telescope.

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

This plaza at the end of the world teems with monumental tributes to a problematic history, and laser discs.

A vast landscape of craters created by meteorites.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

This Brazilian astronomy museum allows guests to gaze at the stars through their telescopes each weekend.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

Bolivia's needle-like rock formations.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

In the Middle Ages, villagers would sound this stone trumpet to boost fertility and coax fish to shore.

This observatory high on a hilltop in the center of Santiago got its start in 1852.