Places Kris McCracken Wants to Go

This grand old Chinese medical facility has been restored and reopened to serve its original purpose.

Berlin’s "Gallic Village" of the Far-Left: The COOP Anti-War Café

The Guinness Book acknowledged one of the biggest and oldest collections of computer games, featuring a strange 'pain machine' that blurs the boundaries between the digital and the real world

The spiciest place in town - where one can and may cry

Dark relics of one of the largest explosives factories of the Third Reich

One of the earliest subway stations in Stockholm, which still looks like the 1950s.

The home of Mario and his friends

This alluring underground library, hidden in a suburban Metro station, features a Space Age aesthetic and its own hydroponic garden.

Western Australia’s heavenly staircase is not for the faint of heart.

The fin-tastically detailed headquarters of the National Fisheries Development Board.

This is no regular fort! It’s a star.

The Collingwood production facility for a department store that was among the largest and earliest in Australia.

This 20-story artwork on a public housing block is the tallest mural in the Southern Hemisphere and tells the story of a community.

Tiny artwork tucked within glass letterboxes form this hidden gem of an art gallery.

A beautifully preserved and hidden 16th-century alleyway, tucked behind an unassuming door.

A remote shipwreck at the end of the world.

This charming, flower-filled, paved cul-de-sac is filled with artists' studio-houses built in the 1920s.

The legend associated with these ruins understates the splendor of the mansion that once stood here.

Cavernous opening completely encased in Karst limestone.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

The largest market in Guyana, designed and built by the Edge Moor Iron Company of Delaware.

A nesting ground for four of the world’s seven marine turtle species, most of which are endangered.

A pyramidal marker where the borders of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana meet on top of Mount Roraima.