Places bibliobecca Wants to Go

Home to over 200,000 artifacts, this museum attempts to guide visitors through the ancient history of Beijing and Imperial China.

The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

This massive collection of British military artifacts includes the heartbreaking personal letters of the men in the trenches of WWI.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The splendor of this 17th century golden chapel has led it to be called the "eighth wonder of the world."

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

Of the many chalices in the running for the Holy Grail, this one in Valencia Cathedral sure looks the part.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.