Places Frida Wants to Go

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.

An eerie abandoned gentlemen's club built for British officials during the colonial era.

The ruins of this prominent glass factory yield hidden treasures buried among the jungle floor.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

This golden temple is surrounded by hundreds of stone tablets that comprise the "world's largest book."

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

Gigantic unfinished stupa and the world's 2nd largest bell.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

A bust of Franz Kafka spins in pieces, reflecting the writer's inner torment.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Built in 1870 at the bridge that connected Buda and Pest, this spectacular incline railway was almost lost forever during World War II.

This Budapest bar allows drinkers to leave their mark on the walls, floor, and even ceiling.

Hidden just under the waters around this Turkish island are the ruins of a once great city.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

Local legend says the remains of Father Christmas lie within the medieval grounds.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

Dr. Strangelove-esque tours reveal the inside a bunker once reserved for Stalin himself.