Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

Enormous pendulum helps keep Taiwan's tallest building from swaying.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

Looking for a crappy restaurant? Pull up a porcelain bowl and enjoy your meal.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

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

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

One man's labor of love, Amman's oldest home has become a time capsule with its doors permanently open to artists and guests.

Home to secret Eastern Bloc spy equipment and the largest stretch of the original Berlin Wall outside of Germany.

The most gigantic, swoony, intimidating trio of fingers in all of antiquity.

The golden Buddha statue at the Wat Muang Monastery is the tallest in Thailand, and the ninth-tallest in the world.

An ancient temple to the Hindu god Shiva surrounded by jaw-dropping scenery.

Why is there a vintage Rolls Royce in this Buddhist temple?

This peaceful, round shrine in the middle of the Sri Lankan jungle acts as a beacon of peace.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

Through a collection of modern bric-a-brac this museum tells the story of the Jewish people from Biblical times to today.

Trash-filled shrines to an unofficial saint known for her endless breast milk dot the highways of Argentina.

A collection of fading fantasy tchotchkes lines this dirt road in the Colorado wilderness.