Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden, Port Louis, Mauritius

Home to the giant water lilies and a couple of other really cool things, like sideways trees. Port Louis doesn't look half bad either.

Hacienda Napoles

Hacienda Napoles, Puerto Triunfo, Columbia

So I heard about this on NPR, and I am intrigued! It's got all sorts of cool stuff like life-size concrete dinosaurs and wild hippopotamuses living in the jungle that escaped captivity! Oh and it was built by drug kingpin! It sounds like between the wild large animals and the drug kingpin, this place has everything that Columbia has to offer!

Chocolate Hills

Chocolate Hills, Bohol, Philippines
How have I not heard of this place!?! 1776 grassy hills crammed into 20 sq. miles... that's cool. Plus, this place not only looks awesomely cool, it conjures up a pleasant taste in my mouth. I don't know about you but it kind of smells like donuts just thinking about this place.

An Oasis

How awesome would it be to be wandering the desert, your dying of heat, dying of thirst, and then you come across the elusive oasis. Man, that's gotta feel good.

Dubrovnik, Croatia

You've got to love old red roofs that overlooks blue, blue water.

The Dead Sea

The Dead Sea, Border of Israel and Jordan

I just heard that the Dead Sea is in danger as almost all of its water source, the Jordan River, is being diverted for irrigation. It's disappearing rapidly and there's talk of pumping in water from, I think, the Red Sea. Anyways, I love the idea of healing waters and crazy stuff like that, and this place has been all the rage in alternative medicines since biblical times. Plus, it'd be pretty sweet to read the paper floating around.

Ibirapuera Auditorium

Ibirapuera Auditorium, Sao Paulo, Brazil

This crazy looking building is in Ibirapuera Park, which is an enormous park in an enormous city... think of NYC's Central Park, only the park is bigger, and the city is bigger. I tried to find out who was playing here sometime soon, but all the websites are in Portuguese. Brazilians sure are smart, I mean they can speak a whole other language!

Stone Circles of Senegambia

Stone Circles of Senegambia, around Janjanbureh, Gambia

It's good luck to put small stones on these larger stones arranged in circles, thousands of them, in Senegal and Gambia. Other global landmarks might seem a bit more impressive, but none look so much like turds. Giant turds that give good luck... you cannot beat that.

Thunder Over Louisville

Thunder Over Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

I'm not big on fireworks, but if you're going to go see some, why not make it "the largest annual fireworks display in North America." This is how the Kentucky Derby weekend starts... I guess the good people of Louisville realized their big event of the year needs to be longer than the couple minutes it takes to run a race. By the way, Louisville looks like a pretty cool town.

Taktshang Monastery

Taktshang Monastery, 700 meters above the Paro valley, Bhutan

This place is called the tiger's nest because some crazy monk decided to build it there after he rode a tiger to the spot a long time ago. While it seems like the story may have gotten stretched a bit through the years, I wonder how you actually get to it. But once you get there, all seven temples are open to visitors.

Gasometer

Gasometer, Vienna, Austria

I think I might have to live in these to get the full effect. These old coal-gas containers were retrofitted into a living community. Behind these giant outerwalls are housing communities for 1600 residents, student housing for 250 residents, a music hall, a movie theater, and some other stuff. The result of which is a unique sense of community that has been the subject of several recent studies. It seems very cool.