The most expensive holiday destination is not on earth, but... in space. A "journey" of ten days through the Milky Way costs around 20 million dollars. We  have not found if VAT is included or not, but we know that the hotel is called the International Space Station and it is about 400 miles above Earth and the view is really sensational. Maybe it is worth every penny indeed......

  The place with the lowest altitude is located between Israel and Jordan and it is called... the Dead Sea. On its beaches, the level reaches 417 meters below sea level .... Yes, this place will certainly be one of the first places completely covered by water in case the Global Warming theory turns into reality. So you'd better hurry, especially if you have not learned to swim yet. That is because the Dead Sea is the saltiest sea in the world, containing 10 times more NaCl (sodium c...

  If you do not like rain, go for Chile, specifically in the Atacama desert. You will not return saying how rain has ruined your vacation. Out of all the world's spots, this is the place where rainfall chances are the lowest. The falls rate is not more than five milliliters annually and it never rained in Calama city. Residents have big problems with liquid resources, water is very expensive in the entire area. On the other hand, if you decide to go, you can leave the spray for mosq...

  Mariana Trench is located close to Micronesia, in the Pacific Ocean. The depth of this place is enough to swallow the Himalayan peak ... and there will remain some room as well. A steel ball with a mass of 1 kg thrown in the water will take more than one hour to get to the bottom. At nearly 11,000 feet, no life form was discovered, probably because of the tremendous pressure. This pressure is about 2 tons per square inch. The nearest island, part of the archipelago Guam, offers to...

  The hottest place on Earth is in Sahara, Libya. Here there was recorded the highest temeperature in the world: 58 degrees Celsius in the shade. But for constantly high temperatures we recommend the Ethiopian Danakil Valley, where temperatures that go over 55 degrees are encountered frequently. I mean almost every day. Very rarely and only at night, the mercury in thermometers drops below 35 degrees Celsius. As a bonus, the atmosphere is filled with helium and other gases from the ...

  The perfect place to hear the creak of ice, to watch the penguins or freeze totally. Breathing would hurt, words would sound differently and you would soon discover that peace was invented here. In Antarctica. Antarctica is a truly unspoiled region of the world. The mysterious White Continent, with its multicolored ice cover, glistening glaciers and mountains, covered with snow caps, offers visitors unparalleled views and opportunity to watch vast numbers of penguins, whales, ...

From the "roof of the world" you will be able to watch the world only from "high above". Once you are there, or even near, and you feel dizzy, vomiting, have small disturbances of vision and a mental depression, don't worry, it is just your body trying to withstand impacts from lack of oxygen. The air is so rarefied that in order to breathe, the body makes a tripple effort to do the same "breathe, blow" action. However, the experience is unique. Hurry up, for the Himalayas rise up to 6 inches pe  Everest is the highest peak on our planet, with an altitude of 8848 meters and it is part of the Himalayan Mountains. The peak seems to unite with the sky and it is located on the border between China and Nepal. Mountain's Tibetan name, Chomolungma has several equivalents: "Goddess-Mother of the World", "Goddess of Snow Mountains" or "mountain so high that no birds fly over it", the Nepali name Sagarmatha tip is. In 1852 it was measured for the first ...