Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

Hike up to this ancestral grain storage site, but don't touch.

Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

This unique museum explores the world of Japanese demons and spirits.

The niches over the western entrance of Westminster Abbey honor individuals from the 20th century who gave their lives for their Christian beliefs.

Workers have collected salt here in a process virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.

One of the world's best-preserved Roman amphitheaters is also one of the most unusual; it's made of black volcanic rock.

In a narrow river valley just north of Beirut, Lebanon, is a chronicle of human history unlike anything else in the world.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

An inverted staircase above the entrance to the Bethnal Green Underground Station functions as a memorial for people who lost their lives during the worst civilian disaster in the U.K. during World War II.

Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.

This place bears witness to the loss of many lives during WWII, and stands in stark contrast to the American Cemetery.

This fortress was built using the last surviving stones from the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

First established in 741, this is one of the oldest Taoist temples in China.

Fall through a crack in the seams of reality at this immersive art installation.

A multiversal transit station located right below a highway interchange.

An excavation site that signified Hercules in Pula, and a glimpse into the city's Roman history.

This reconstructed castle was once the base of the “Devil King” who almost united the feudal warring states.

The oldest tourist graffiti in the world helped archaeologists identify the Pyramid of Djoser.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.

This lesser-visited World Heritage site in Athens boasts an impressive ensemble of medieval gold mosaics.

An ancient theatre in the "little Rome of the Alps."

This statue in Talcott, West Virginia, is an enduring symbol of American grit.