Places hellogigi Wants to Go

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

A tribute to the artist and activist who created the rainbow pride flag.

Overflowing with shipping containers, this location has been transformed into a massive workspace for artists.

This contorting sculpture is the tallest in San Francisco.

Shoot for par over the bodies of the dead on this cemetery-cum-golf course.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

Join the circus for a few lessons to learn clowning, acrobatics, and Chinese contortion.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

Visit this church that's shaped like a giant glass pump either to cater to women or to reference a tragic local tale. Or both.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

One of Indonesia's tallest, this waterfall takes a 390-foot plunge into the Lake Toba caldera.

This mile-wide crater high in the mountains of Indonesia is the largest gold mine in the world.