Places hellogigi Wants to Go

A monumental toilet that is also host to rare plants.

Come for the whole sides of slow-roasted lamb, stay for the regional Kurdish specialties.

Homesick Syrian refugees head to this restaurant for a taste of Damascus.

Saint Borromeo often prayed in this austere crypt during the 16th century.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

A crumbling ghost town on the South Dakota prairie.

Dishes are packed with flavor at one of the only Singaporean restaurants in Paris.

A haunted slate mine turned concert hall and a hidden fairy garden.

Secluded springs in the Rio Grande Gorge offer hot bathing beside the haunted ruins of a stagecoach stop.

The biggest cave system in the Arabian Peninsula is home to a rare variety of blind fish.

The world's largest mineral hot springs is home to a herd of bison, a free public bath house, beautiful mineral formations, and a terrifying swinging bridge.

A mural and a few historical markers commemorate Denver's once-thriving Chinatown, which was obliterated in a racist riot.

Plains of ash and pair of semi-active volcanoes contribute to the otherworldly beauty of this little-known Vanuatu island.

This South Pacific volcano has been blowing its stack for over 800 years and is said to be home to a cult leader waiting to be reborn.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

Kayak out to a floating restroom.

Art blooms at this unique outdoor gallery along the banks of the Arkansas River.

A superb Paleo-Christian baptismal pool is preserved among the ruins of ancient Sufetula.

An abandoned mountain village in Habib surrounded by walnut, apricot, and pomegranate trees.

In the Ozarks, a waterfall shoots out from a glorious hole.

Red ocher pictographs survive in this tufa rock shelter on the shore of an ancient lake.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

A lava tube cooled to form this long tunnel that stays chilly even at the height of summer.