Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

The real Buddhist temple where the fictional Kwai Chang Kaine (David Carradine) trained in TV's 'Kung Fu' series.

The ideal location for an immersive ecological experience.

This park features a wooden causeway preserved since the Neolithic era.

Trek up to an abandoned fire lookout from the 1930s for an unimpeded view.

Chef Ashleigh Shanti serves up a classic Appalachian fish fry.

A haunted medieval church, a ceremonial stone circle, and a burial ground are all that's left of this community lost to the Black Death.

This outdoor sculpture gallery is a modern-day homage to Andean culture and history.

This 28-foot-tall milk can contains one of the most whimsical ice cream parlors in town.

Once a mining boom town, Mogollon’s well-preserved buildings are tucked away in the mountains of the Gila National Forest.

This well in the former capital of Colombia's Muisca people is the setting for a steamy legend.

This abandoned prison is now a museum chronicling the oppression of political prisoners in the not-so-distant past.

A raised Japanese building has preserved 8th-century artifacts for more than a millennium, earning this log cabin a reputation as the "world's oldest museum."

Canada’s longest cave system is home to creatures found nowhere else on the planet, as well as rare cave pearls.

Hidden deep in the Joshua Tree Wilderness, this 1940s miner's cabin built into a gap between two mega-sized boulders.

This archaeological site features an early version of today’s refrigerators.

Order a baked Alaska at one of Hong Kong’s last surviving places slinging “soy-sauce Western.”

Sample Hong Kong’s famous “Swiss wings” at the source.

An infamous former prison is now a biodiverse national park.

Serve yourself from the heaping carts piled with bamboo steamers at what may be Hong Kong’s oldest dim sum parlor.

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

Jet fuel-powered flames lend dishes a pleasant char at one of the last of Hong Kong’s remaining streetside restaurants.

Chef Lisa Nelson serves up sensational doubles, jerk chicken, and other Trinidadian staples.

Crawfish hand pies, Natchitoches meat pies, and all manner of other sweet or savory, flaky-crusted pastries abound here.

Catch a live blues set in a former 1930s grocery store on the Mississippi River.