Places laksarichard Wants to Go

Children’s timeless joy is remembered in the fast-developing Myeongdong district of Seoul.

The site of the last royal wedding in Korea.

Booksellers and public artworks fill this vibrant promenade along the disused railroad tracks.

The burial ground of two kings and a queen is now a calm city park in the middle of bustling Seoul.

This compact temple is filled with garlands of colorful balls that represent restrained monkeys.

View Japan's most historic city from a cyberpunk walkway suspended 150 feet above the ground.

Burial mound for the ears and noses of thousands of mutilated Korean soldiers.

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

For decades, Puerta del Sol has been illuminated by a giant, guitar-wielding bottle of sherry.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

The fishing boats that moor in this small lagoon enter and leave through a tunnel to the sea.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

A centuries-old forgotten underworld lies beneath Malta.

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

This subterranean necropolis holds three floors of antler-dug grave caves.

Picturesque intersection of witchcraft and ancient Christianity.

This Sri Lankan cemetery is the final resting place of sci-fi legend Sir Arthur C. Clarke.

A magician and his beloved, pampered canine were buried together, within days of each other, due to a tragic twist of fate.

Eastern Bloc nostalgia, anybody?

The ancient Greek Titan guards this massive dam holding a lightning bolt to symbolize electricity.