This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars and I am standing in the Galapagos in front of a Congress of Marine iguanas.

They're piled on top of each other.

Occasionally, if you can make it through the sound of the waves

in the wind, you can hear them spitting out salt water from their nose.

They just sneeze on each other and lay on each other and they seem like they enjoy life pretty well.

Last week I was in the Galapagos Islands, which for me is the ultimate travel destination.

I'm on Fernandina Islands where the marine iguanas are very plentiful.

Also the flightless cormorant who keeps his wings open

while he's just standing on a lava rock.

It's really silly looking.

My family hiked and swam with these astounding creatures

in this

completely foreign landscape. The ground is black lava. The aquana has just matched the lava. You can almost step on them. They don't move.

Since there are no predators, they have no fear of humans at all. And you can just walk right up to them.

You don't touch them, but you can just walk real close to them and take a picture.

And sometimes they sneeze on you.

It was life changing. I'll probably end up doing a story about it someday despite myself, but fundamentally I was there just to be there and it was amazing.

For 40 years of my life, I could barely conceive of doing this kind of trip, but I

have that privilege now and after leaving the islands, my first thought was, I have to do this more often.

Experiening as much of the world as possible is something that I need to place a little

closer to the foundation of my hierarchy of needs. This is something the

team at Atlas Obscura figured out a long time ago. Atlas Obscura is the

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