Places typosinkeye Wants to Go

Africa's Venice on stilts.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Traditional 11th-century outdoor tannery.

Five ancient libraries, little changed for centuries, preserve a medieval archive of Quranic lore and civic documents

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Living trees form the structure of an open-air palace.

Home to nearly a third of the world's mud volcanoes, Azerbaijan is home to a messy, bubbling, and sometimes explosive landscape.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

Over the dunes of the Empty Quarter, the mysterious music of the desert.

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

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

An underground city of salt.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

Where the lovelorn find a home for their sentimental keepsakes.

On La Gomera, "Silbadors" communicate in a 4,000-word language of whistles.

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