Places DariaB Wants to Go

One of the biggest Buddhist stupas in Europe, hidden from most locals.

A giant glider—designed by the father of the Rubik's Cube's designer—now soars within a shopping mall.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

This building has survived for more than a century and remains virtually untouched.

Electrical curiosity museum housed in an old transformer station.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

A forgotten graveyard lost in the tangles of an overgrown garden.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Established hundreds of years ago, Gandan remains the premier Buddhist monastery in Ulaanbaatar.

Hidden treasures belonging to Mongolia's most revered and multi-talented monk spent decades buried in the Gobi desert.

People have been scribbling on this massive chunk of granite for more than 1,500 years.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

This spiritual landmark for practicers of Shamanism is drenched in milk and vodka and covered in blue scarves.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

A natural bridge formed by limestone travertines in Armenia's Vorotan River Canyon.

An old curiosity shop holds on to a centuries-old tradition of manually-distilled rose water.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

This often-missed monastery, set in a scenic mountain landscape, features unique frescoes, fortifications and legends.