Places wiskas0011 Wants to Go

This former monastery in Vietnam now houses a chocolate shop and museum filled with centuries-old taxidermy specimens.

For a taste of Vietnamese gastropub culture, look no further than this convivial seafood joint that stays open till midnight.

Vietnam’s everyman “broken rice” dish is given one major upgrade at this humble institution.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

The medieval town's star-shaped walls are geometrically dazzling, though not entirely impenetrable.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

Catering to broken dolls for almost 200 years, this repair shop is now a charnel house of doll parts.

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

Abandoned for decades, trains still pass through the now-restored remains of one of Madrid's first metro stations.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

The house where the writer spent his formative years.