Places daratheodora Wants to Go

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

A theme park made of glass, from the gleaming books on the shelves to the crystal fish in the mirror lake.

The tiny, studious rodents greet visitors to the National Archives of Finland.

Inside this mansion turned museum, the works of prominent Croatian artists are on full display.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

The site of an atrocity that would be used to justify Britain’s conquest of India.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

A nourishing complex of found object art, paintings, and sculptures that celebrate key figures in Black history.

Divers can encounter an abandoned warship encircled by a giant kraken submerged in the British Virgin Islands.

This bleach-white graveyard overlooking the ocean is accessed through a tunnel.

This chapel on a cliff is renowned for its healing powers and was founded on the site of a supposed divine intervention.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

This small primate research island is teeming with playing, fighting wild monkeys.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

This railroad overpass is said to be home to a murderous goat-man whose very legend has led to very real deaths.

This 13th century castle is chock full of ghosts and impossibly rare cows.

The city of Manchester quietly unveiled this tribute to a 19th-century massacre.

The English bed-and-breakfast believed to have inspired Emily Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights."

The former home of queer novelist Yoshiya Nobuko memorializes her contributions to modern-day manga.