Places lovexdumpling Wants to Go

An extraordinary "City of Caves" carved from solid stone.

This abandoned fort is said to be the most haunted place in India, so much so that entry is prohibited after sunset.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

A mecca for India's Jains.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

This complex of vertically-excavated Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu monolithic temples in India's Maharashtra providence illustrates a spirit of tolerance characteristic of ancient India.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

A festival where people vie to be bombarded by exploding clusters of fireworks.

This former factory turned private museum contains surreal and creepy artwork created by Robert Y.

A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

The tangled roots of a giant banyan tree have fully reclaimed the ruins of this abandoned warehouse.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.