Places tstriegel Wants to Go

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

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

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

Abandoned power station once home to a squatter community, now being developed into an arts center.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

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

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Pompeii's less famous neighbor is still revealing her secrets.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.