Places Edited by linkogecko

This public art is inspired by a local Aboriginal creation story.

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

Dedicated to a legendary spiritual vision.

This crab paste noodle soup specialist has been doling out its namesake dish for more than four decades.

A refugee returns to his homeland to open Ho Chi Minh City’s first Michelin-starred restaurant.

Order your coffee crowned with salted whipped cream or blended with coconut and ice.

Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

The largest and best preserved necropolis in the Western Mediterranean.

Distressing images of the Last Judgement adorn the walls of this medieval sanctuary named for St. Patrick.

After it was missing for a decade, this 40-foot statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe was found and returned to a place of honor—with a little help from a tropical storm.

A unique shrine dedicated to the deified skull of a 17th-century Tokyo courtesan.

This beloved cheeseburger-slinging trailer holds Nashville's oldest beer license.

An art installation that will challenge your understanding of reality and perception.

Founded during the Ayutthaya era, this unique Buddhist temple remains shipshape to this day.

Epicurean and holy traditions converge in what may be the oldest restaurant in Europe.

The first miniatures museum in Asia contains all sorts of itsy-bitsy wonders, including the world's smallest working television.

A Beaux-Arts architectural surprise and a charming nostalgic tour through northern Mexico’s railway revolution.

A local train station entrance hall doubles as a sanctuary for barn swallows.

A former travertine mine traces the geological history of this unique desert filled with crystalline blue pools.

A solid steel plane designed to catch fire over and over again.

Paisley's oldest open green space contains a rather ostentatious fountain at its center.

What started as makeshift fishermen's housing has grown into a massive, floating community.

This ”skyspace,” which bears a resemblance to a spacecraft, is designed to disappear in the presence of light.