Places hellogigi Wants to Go

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.

The smallest island in Manhattan is a manmade landfill dominated by a Buddhist peace arch.

Caves full of Buddhist statues, incredible rock formations and a deserted lagoon.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

The small sanctuaries lie just off the beaten path near one of Bhutan's most famous attractions.

The wartime prison now features haunting sculpted reenactments of the atrocities that took place there.

Life-sized painted illusions let pedestrians blend in with the street art.

Home to what locals claim is the largest whale skeleton in Southeast Asia, which is worshiped yearly.

This cavern was used as a hidden hospital and safe house during the Vietnam War.

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

The lavish temple of the Cao Dai religion that includes Buddha, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, and Victor Hugo.

A nightmare for the claustrophobic lies hidden in Southeast Asia.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

A cemetery and the town it served sinks beneath the sea during the volcanic birth of Mt. Vulcan.

A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.

A sprawling ancient Jewish cemetery with over 30 rock-hewn burial caves.

This nightmarish children's plaything was left grotesque to help kids conquer their fear.