Photo Gallery Visiting the World's Most Obscure Destinations
For those travel fanatics competing for the title of "world's most traveled person," hard-to-reach places are just boxes to be checked on the ever-growing list of the world's countries and territories. One of them is the tiny Pacific island of Nauru. It's one of the most inaccessible locations for ultra-travelers. Only one airline flies there and visitors have to transit through Australia.
The government of Bhutan tightly controls tourism to its peaceful mountain country.
Located in the southern Pacific Ocean, the Pitcairn Islands have a population of just 48 and are accessible only by boat.
While the Principality of Liechtenstein is smack in the middle of Europe -- between Austria and Switzerland -- you could be forgiven for missing it. It's tiny, one of continental Europe's few remaining micro-states.
Sascha Grabow is a former tennis pro who is among Germany's most traveled people. This photo shows him during a chilly trip to Antarctica in 2010.
Here Grabow is pictured on Ecuador's Galapagos Islands with some new friends.
Spaniard Jorge Sanchez is widely considered to be Europe's most traveled man. Here is one of his favorite pictures from a 2009 trip to Russia.
