Places hapichapi Wants to Go

The coffin-shaped church was once home to monks who slept in coffins.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

This red London phone booth once stood in front of Buckingham Palace and was used by the queen.

Three sinkholes filled with warm, crystal-clear water reached by a horse-driven cart on an old train track through the jungle.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

Anonymously sculpted and donated, these sculptures made from poetry books and pages are sprinkled around the city.

The ruins of a medieval monastery built on a perilous slope.

Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini fell in love with this lonely 13th-century tower while making his most famous film.

Legend tells how a Spanish soldier disappeared from this isolated sentry box without a trace.

The ruins of a medieval village that was abandoned after a 19th-century inferno.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

The oldest arboretum on the Dalmatian coast doubles as the gardens of Kings Landing in "Game of Thrones."

A fascinating assortment of cave dwellings, medieval ruins, and sarcophagi are being devoured by the forest.

This ancient altar emerges from the thick forests to reveal the mysteries of Etruscan sacrificial rituals.

Haunted house kitsch meets Japanese folklore at this theme bar where patrons can “die” and have their own mock funeral.

A pyramidal marker where the borders of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet on top of Mount Roraima.

A lonesome Moai stands in a small Italian town some 9,000 miles away from its Easter Island brethren.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

A leafy, peaceful oasis nestled in the heart of Glasgow's busy south side.

Designed to serve primarily the Maharaja, this is an interesting variation on the traditional stepped well.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

A peculiar trapezoidal building covered with wonderful humorous reliefs.