Places Himanshu Wants to Go

This intriguing museum chronicles the history and impact of immigration in Brazil.

A 66-million-year-old rock formation stands tall over Mumbai, offering stellar city views.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

Manhattan's Thirteenth Avenue was made on landfill then deliberately destroyed — apart from one small, obscure block.

Panaji’s oldest surviving building, which was once a palace and viceroy residence, now houses the Goa State Museum.

Lunar landscape, a mud volcano and bizarre rock formations.

The last remaining 19th-century mile marker along the historic Ocean Parkway.

Nearly four centuries after its founding, remnants of one of the oldest planned communities in North America are still visible in southern Brooklyn.

Serve yourself from the heaping carts piled with bamboo steamers at what may be Hong Kong’s oldest dim sum parlor.

This historic spot was where America's involvement in the Vietnam War officially came to an end.

Conveniently located within binocular range of a nuclear bunker, the "summer camp" area was a painfully obvious spy house.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

The California secessionist movement has its own foreign embassy, in Russia of all places.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

An early masterpiece of Le Corbusier, a famed Modernist architect, hiding in plain sight.

A treasure trove of scientific instruments from the 17th and 18th centuries.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

A historic arboretum and non-conformist, non-denominational park cemetery.