Places ericbronte Wants to Go

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

The largest Art Nouveau complex in the world is a Barcelona hospital with a 600-year-long history.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

A small 12th-century temple surrounded by waters believed to have curative properties.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

Though it was originally dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, Baphuon was converted to a Buddhist temple in the 15th century, complete with a massive hidden statue.

A secluded, little-known temple hidden amid the dense jungle.

Khmer Rouge's high security prison.

This abandoned Greek island was the last active leper colony in Europe.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

One of the largest single-span stone-arch bridges in the Balkans looks like something straight out of a fairytale.

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

Rock-cut caves and 7,000 Buddhist sculptures carved into the nearly sheer face of a sandstone mountain.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.