Places tstriegel Wants to Go

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

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

The crypts are so large they're basically their own underground church.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

Where beer lovers can literally immerse themselves in beer.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

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

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

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.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

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

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

The world's second largest salt mine, said to have been discovered by Alexander the Great's horse.

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

An autonomous republic of Orthodox monks.