Places flblom Wants to Go

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

This Balinese sea temple is thought to be guarded by the hundreds of monkeys that live around it.

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

This exceptional home was a 32-year labor of love by a man determined to build his wife the most beautiful stone house in the world.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

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

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

This smaller cousin of the Forbidden City has gone from ancestral sacrifice to tourist's whispers.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

Stone shrouds of Prince Liu Sheng and Princess Dou Wan of the Han Dynasty, created to preserve their flesh for eternity.

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

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

A mecca for India's Jains.

This ominous Albanian fortress houses tanks and downed planes as a reminder of their victories over Western imperialism.

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

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.