Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

This memorial honors five journalists who were killed in a mass shooting in 2018, and affirms the importance of the first amendment.

Believed to be the former location of one of the earliest Viking assemblies in Europe.

Just off the road outside Baguio, a gigantic lion's head carved into a mountain greets those driving by.

When a missile testing site was proposed near this site in the Outer Hebrides, this statue was commissioned in response.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

Known as the birthplace of Korean Buddhism, this temple features an ancient, five-story stone pagoda.

In 1954, two enormous earthquakes occurred just minutes apart, resulting in prominent scarps that extend for miles along the range fronts.

The first museum in the U.S. to address human rights issues in China.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

Haunted by its violent past, this colonial bastion was the largest Spanish military installation in the Americas.

A never-inhabited village that was built as part of Mussolini's agricultural reforms.

A spectacular Petrine Baroque summer palace commissioned for Catherine I by Peter the Great.

In the foothills of the lesser Caucasus, a centuries-old fortress still stands.

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.

This museum explores the history of the city's public transportation. Its collection includes the world's oldest preserved electric trolley car.

One of only a handful of seaside temples in Korea, this sacred space is home to a legendary healing Buddha statue and a traffic safety prayer pagoda.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.