Places MagnumPI Wants to Go

One of the world’s smallest bars, just 13 square feet, is brimming with speakeasy flair.

A tall karst islet popularized by 007.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Where better to stay the night than inside a trio of ancient Chinese deities representing "the good life."

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

The ruins of an ancient Mayan city, beautifully preserved and only accessible by boat.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

A former fisherman's hut deemed too small for habitation is now a delightful tourist draw.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

One of the only spherical 19th century gas containers left today.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.