Places TaillowMarill Wants to Go

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Mount Nyiragongo has erupted at least 34 times since 1882 and is home to the world's largest lava lake.

The hottest place on the planet.

Ethiopia's "smoking mountain" is in one of the hottest regions on the planet and is home to two lava lakes.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

The atmospheric road was never meant to be so creepy.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

Not one, not two, but three natural bridges remain in this captivating spot post-sinkhole.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.