Places vmhenshaw Wants to Go

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

This 6th-century church honors St. Tudno, the patron saint of Llandudno.

Eerily lifelike effigies stare at everyone who enters this sanctuary.

The remains of a small medieval chapel mark the legendary birthplace of the patron saint of Wales.

This neolithic stone grave has been altered and restored so often its now more neo than lithic.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

This institution honors Nepal’s most storied warriors.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

The house that took a plunge into the facade of a museum.

The first modernist church in Europe.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.