Places b17m Wants to Go

A small church ornamented with medieval erotic sculptures.

This seaside museum boasts a colorful collection of over 3,000 shells, the largest in Taiwan.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

An antiquated aquarium housed in a converted government anti-nuclear bunker.

Taiwan's last Chinese character letterpress preserves the dying art of Chinese character mold making.

A Buddhist temple covered in intricate designs and carvings made out of seashells and pieces of coral.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

A fortified medieval basilica on the Caelian Hill preserves extraordinary frescoes and one of Rome's most beautiful hidden cloisters.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

Angels, demons, and tortured souls on a giant wall mural in a little church.

A relic of Victorian grandeur hides beneath a busy South London road.

The walls of these four caverns are filled with art that dates back to the earliest human presence in Europe.

Musings of an artist carved into a rural stonewall.

The walls of this tiny Italian church are entirely covered with frescoes.

Statues portraying anatomical deformities were placed in this garden to foster ethical behavior.

This monastery built into a cliff hides a perfectly preserved hermit in a glass coffin.

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

A dilapidated psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Milan where electroconvulsive therapy was developed and Napoleon once lived.

Nestled in the heart of Milan is a real wunderkammer of morbid curiosities.

Artistic tombs, monuments, and a beautiful "Hall of Fame" lurk inside this cemetery.

Small on the outside, big on the inside, this church is an astonishing act of visual deception.

Before there were doorbells this bronze ear was installed for visitors to announce their arrival.