Places kathykate Wants to Go

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

Travel to the Balearics without leaving Barcelona at this restaurant specializing in Mallorcan cuisine.

800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

This airfield played a key role in both World War II and the Cold War.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.

Barça football fans might see the insignia hidden in a church window as a divine sign.

Behind this unmarked facade lies the original bomba—a crunchy orb of fried mashed potatoes stuffed with minced meat.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

A mountaintop Buddhist temple with panoramic views of Hiroshima.

This glass wall is gradually filling up with paper cranes, in honor of Hiroshima’s past and dedication to its future.

In 806, Kobo Daishi began meditating on Mount Misen. The Buddhist monk lit this holy fire, which has been kept burning for 1,200 years.

One of Japan's most famous sights, the bridge was originally built in 1673.

A shrine dedicated to the sacred white snakes of Iwakuni, whose albinism has been passed down for generations.

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

This is no ordinary coffee chain outlet—it's an architectural masterpiece.

Japan’s only surviving winding tower.

The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The name of the only golden Buddhist temple in Korea translates as "the temple that protects the country."

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Collected from all around Seoul, thousands of secondhand books create this photogenic tunnel.