Places irenely27 Wants to Go

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

The highest monastery in the world operates a tiny guesthouse with doors open to all.

Walled family complexes in Southern China.

Okinawan dining in a twenty foot tall, man-made tree house overlooking Naha Harbor.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

Enormous underground chamber built to detect 'ghost particles' of the universe.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

This spa theme park lets its guests take a dip in pools of coffee, wine, or ramen broth.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

This high-design church is made up of two dizzying spirals meant to evoke the weaving together of marriage.

A Japanese corporation has turned this small island town into living modern art gallery.

Historical Japanese-Dutch relations are honored with haunted rides and flower fields in this replica town.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

This beautiful natural train tunnel is said to grant the wishes of visiting lovebirds.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

The world’s first hotel to be run by robots.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

A complex and beautiful system of rice terraces covers a million acres over the mountains.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Snow-capped peaks, colorful waterfalls and stunning vistas on the edge of the Himalayas.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.