Places waldro00 Wants to Go

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

The only surviving leech house in the United Kingdom was a home for bloodsucking worms until the 1900s.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

An abandoned quarry hides an open-air gallery of huge sculptures, some made from the rubble of 9/11.

This small group of sand dunes manages to pack in a strange rainbow of colors.

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

This sprawling concrete suburb of Kraków was designed by the Soviet Union as the model proletarian city.

All that remains of Jacques Cousteau's 1960s underwater "village."

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Hans Christian Andersen for the postmodern world.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

This mountaintop lake bubbles and steams in a perpetual boil, thanks to its direct link to the Earth's interior.

Home of the "true" equator.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.