Places camcayer Wants to Go

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

A 14th-century European chapel sticks out of the facade of a Japanese hotel.

This whimsical garbage disposal facility receives around 12,000 accidental tourists each year.

A moss-covered statue of a Japanese Buddhist deity stands at a quiet temple in downtown Osaka.

Surreal giant face-pillars welcome visitors from across the globe to this hotel.

The headquarters of Korea’s provisional government later became the site of a prominent statesman's assassination.

The former home of a foreign correspondent who reported on Korea’s independence movement has been restored and is open to the public.

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

This retro café is a remnant of Japan’s post-war Argentine tango craze.

This temple is home to a group of Buddha statues made from thousands of bones and ashes of the deceased.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.