Places Wafflemaster135 Wants to Go

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.