Places rootikoo Wants to Go

This remarkable collection devoted to the study of fish includes 1 million preserved specimens from all around the world.

With its vaulted ceiling and gilded details, this University of Washington library would feel right at home inside an old palace.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

These post boxes from a bygone era have been the source of controversy and debate.

Taoism, Buddhist and Confucianism are all represented in this temple that claims to answer anyone's wishes.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

270 million year-old forest of stone.

Large rock high in the mountains of Yunnan that is naturally shaped like a chair, complete with arms.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A small sanctuary carved into the mountainside near the tallest point in continental Portugal.

An abandoned mine now resembles a post-apocalyptic landscape of derelict buildings and blood-red pools of water.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.