Places kitvishnu Wants to Go

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

An on-site urban farm and fish pond supply some of the produce for this upscale restaurant.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.

A 13th-century Swiss castle houses a collection of artifacts from the Polish diaspora.

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

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

An abandoned Cambodian resort that mirrored the downfall of the country as it was happening.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

Everyone from Alan Ginsberg to The Rolling Stones has stopped by this classic dive bar.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

Is this 200-meter-wide nature reserve the smallest desert in the world?

This unassuming farm complex was once the epicenter of an underground liberation group.

Nelson Mandela lived here with his family from 1946 until his arrest in 1962.