Places tomod05 Wants to Go

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

An odd little fishing town that is inundated by tourists looking to be locked up in a cage and surrounded by great white sharks, because why not?

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

The centuries-old trees lining both sides of this dirt road may become Madagascar's first natural monument.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This rugged area of red rocks and arches is often considered one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

The world's highest and most dangerous infinity pool lies at the precipice of Victoria Falls.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.