Places greggc80 Wants to Go

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

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

In Stone Town, Zanzibar, the city’s culture and history is told through its doors.

One of India’s largest second-hand bookstores, with more than 600,000 volumes lining its walls.

A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

Step inside a Soviet-designed nuclear power plant with RBMK reactors identical to the ones in Chernobyl.

Soviet-era gates guard an unexpected urban forest—and a future U.S. embassy.

This lighthouse at the very tip of the Horn of Africa in the Puntland region of Somalia is a relic of Italian fascism.

A tiny kissaten coffeeshop with expertly crafted coffee in an antique setting.

Enjoy a pint surrounded by Europe’s largest collection of vintage beer advertisements.

Fans are known to leave tributes to these two brothers, both heavy-metal legends.

The only building in Kazakhstan where symbols of sovereignty are collected under one roof.

Relaxed riverfront dive bar where you can also rent a boat.

An abandoned early 20th-century mansion towers over a cliff in a southern Peruvian beach town.

A collection of 2000 bottles of Belgium's favorite drink.

Resting place and mausoleum of the founder and first president of Turkey.

This flagpole ranks among the world’s tallest and can be seen from three countries.

The Vietcong leader isn’t the only symbol of late 20th-century counterculture represented in this statue.

A beautiful mausoleum is the crown jewel of a preserved ancient city in Central Asia.

In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

This striking, historic hotel has major Wes Anderson movie energy.

Two buildings named after their windows that make it look like a sea of television sets plastered to a wall.