Places kosmostasis Wants to Go

For centuries young Thai men used this Giant Swing as a slingshot to heaven.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

Rejoice at Amsterdam's ‘pop temple,’ a former church reborn as a raucous music venue.

Old Muslim cemetery and resting place of folkloric creatures

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

The oldest private art gallery in all of Hungary.

The true meaning behind this sculpture remains unknown.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

This sculpture honors the man who was known as the "Righteous Among the Nations."

A Trabant car, a kangaroo statue, and a plethora of plants take over this abandoned-factory-turned-bar.

A stunning Art Nouveau cinema in the heart of Budapest.

The geographical center of Budapest is marked with a 10-foot-tall stylized zero.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

Once the home of a hermetic monk, this cave now houses a small church.

Some of the greatest minds in the history of Hungarian art and science converged in this café.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

Time stands still at this serene burial ground in the center of Budapest.

The romantic garden was the epicenter of the Hungarian art scene in the 1880s.

A tribute to the builder(s) of Bitcoin.