Places lilpuddanesca Wants to Go

A pair of oily black spiders lurk inside South Korea's largest airport.

Trees emerge from the surface of this small man-made reservoir.

From mid-September to early November, dreamy fields of pink muhly grass spring up all over South Korea.

The toilet-shaped house of South Korea's sanitation pioneer is now a museum to the john.

This human-made pond is part of a Korean palace complex first built in the 7th century.

This pagoda was once the central feature of a Buddhist temple that no longer exists.

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

Along a rail-biking route, giant insects house a two-story restaurant.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

A Korean village where times stands still.

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

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

A unique structure located on the grounds of one of five grand palaces that were built by the Joseon dynasty.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

An abandoned mining area now part of a gorgeous national park.

Known as one of the most famous parks in Honduras.

This staircase full of Mayan hieroglyphics is perhaps the largest single text in the world.

This incredibly diverse research station is one of the largest tropical botanical gardens in the world.

A beautiful Georgian church alongside the Thames has a crypt in the basement, in which are buried the bodies of the infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold, his wife Peggy, and their daughter Sophia.

The Pulitzer Prize winning writer and actor from “The Exorcist,” Jason Miller, is immortalized with a statue that contains his ashes.

This was Allied HQ during D-Day! Eisenhower was there and you can visit the ACTUAL MAP he looked at on that day.