Places Erin Wants to Go

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

The world’s oldest military museum has remained largely unchanged since the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

A non-stop elevator ride in Vienna's city hall.

The first modernist church in Europe.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

The Habsburgs' royal collections of art and wonders.

Giant WWII fortresses that fired 8,000 rounds a minute, now home to thousands of pigeons.

This grand manse has been transformed into a museum devoted to one of the founders of Fantastic Realism.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

This large, circular tomb is the final resting place of the first emperor of Rome.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

A focal point of the Cuban government, this city square features one of the most iconic images in the country.

A series of five defunct panopticon prisons in Cuba.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

This unique religious structure is an architectural gem with arresting ocean views.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

The world's largest church atop a political fault line.