Places LuisFT Wants to Go

This Kyoto Starbucks takes coffee drinkers back in time.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

This derelict superstructure was a very important warning system for the Soviet military.

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

Colombia's first concrete structure doubles as a replica of Versaille's Petit Trianon Belvedere and a symbol for development.

A lighthouse marking the northernmost point of continental South America.

An 18th-century battery complete with original kitchen and garrison.

The 17th-century hacienda where Simón Bolívar spent his last days before dying from tuberculosis.

Would you dare to dangle from a great height in a wooden basket?

This maximum-security prison was abandoned to make way for a national park.

A celebration of Colombia’s premier contemporary artist.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

The world's largest ecosystem of its kind is home to South America's only native species of bear.

A narrow ghost town built onto a peninsula behind a Colombian Slum.