Places tenzin35 Wants to Go

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

Eccentric sculpture garden brings Basque mythology to life.

A museum dedicated to the Spanish occult in a town that was terrorized by the Inquisition.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

The oldest operating roller coaster of its kind, the Montaña Suiza has been thrilling riders since 1928.

This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.

The eclectic observatory castle of a 19th-century astronomer and explorer.

Abandoned blockhouses from Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall erode into the sea on a French beach.

This abandoned but well-preserved Prussian fortress sits abandoned in a Polish forest near the German border.

This building is a recreation of the gatehouse that separated Los Alamos from the outside world during the era of the Manhattan Project.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

These ominous lava formations were said to be an entrance to the netherworld so of course they inspired a famous metal band.

In Northeastern Iceland lies something of an oxymoron: a steaming desert.

Known as the "Valley of the Moon," this Jordanian wadi is one of the most amazing desertscapes on Earth.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

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

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.