Places csburns Wants to Go

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.

China's most famous acrobatics act.

The once highest point in China blends symbolic design with a kick of adrenaline.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

This brothel-turned-restaurant features plenty of surprises and elaborate, extravagant architecture.

This bar is filled with Star Wars merchandise from around the world, all of it unlicensed knockoffs.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.