Everywhere it’s worth the detour

Lesser Poland, Poland

The miners' route, three hundred metres down, not the tourist loop.

Kent, United Kingdom

Wartime sea forts standing in the Thames Estuary on stilts.

Cotopaxi, Ecuador

The two-thirds of the crater rim nobody walks.

Brandenburg, Germany

The sanatorium wing that was never put on the treetop walk.

Nagasaki, Japan

The shore angle on Hashima that the boat tours don't give you.

Texas, United States

The limestone creek above the reserved, ticketed grotto.

Aragón, Spain

An enormous dead border station in the middle of the Pyrenees.

Vesturland, Iceland

A steep unmarked spur above Borgarfjörður, wind permitting.

Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

A path that runs behind the waterfall, not in front of it.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Brick caverns dug for no known reason, still being excavated.

Epirus, Greece

An unmarked ledge over the deepest gorge in europe.

Karas, Namibia

A diamond town the desert is slowly filling in.

Queensland, Australia

A Spanish castle folly rotting into the rainforest.

Vlorë, Albania

A canyon walks you down to a beach with no road to it.

A straight, elevated area for walking and running