Places dopr Wants to Go

The last street gas lamps in Hong Kong.

A statue of the original Pearly King is hidden in a church's crypt.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

This cupola was once seen as an architectural disaster.

A monument dedicated to a lone, brave invader.

These two 15th-century metal rods allowed people to check if they were swindled or not.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The only Chinese temple in Mumbai.

A sandstone lamp post in Mumbai's business district honors the war efforts of the Port Trust and its employees who fell during World War I.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

This handcrafted, old western-style town is filled with deserted cars, retired movie props, and other forms of Americana.

This small and unknown museum recounts the life of Mirabai, a remarkable mystic saint of the 16th century.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

Sidle into a side alley for a taste of sumo wrestlers' traditional hot-pot soup, in a tiny restaurant founded by a former competitor.

This historic hydroelectric power plant in Japan has been preserved and is open to the public.

The shipyards along the outskirts of the Bangladesh capital are a flurry dangerous boat breaking and rebuilding.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

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

Thousands of coffin-like pillars make up this controversial Holocaust memorial.

A tribute to the intrepid explorer and his crew who perished in terrible conditions on an ill-fated expedition to the Arctic.

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.