Places Manali Wants to Go

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

Now the site of a high school, this was almost the location of the largest cathedral in the US.

The highest bridge in the world rises a dizzying 1,854 feet above the river.

At an altitude of 3,700 meters, this is the highest polo field in the world.

The history of the oldest fort in Baltistan is steeped in familial rivalry and gruesome deaths.

Unrefined, uneven, and unstable—this is the real McCoy of Pakistani suspension bridges.

A city entirely devoted to illegal gun production.

Just in case you need some cold cash at the top of the world.

The Great Wall of Sindh, Pakistan's mighty fort.

Tibetan-influenced mountain fortress in Northern Pakistan.

Thousands of ancient rock carvings are scattered just off the highway.

The third largest ship breaking yard in the world has created an eerie shipping graveyard in southern Pakistan.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

The place that allegedly inspired James Hilton's depiction of Shangri-La.

Known as the most dangerous bridge in the world, the Hussaini Hanging Bridge is only one of many precarious rope bridges in Northern Pakistan.

Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.

Lunar landscape, a mud volcano and bizarre rock formations.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.

A non-stop elevator ride in Vienna's city hall.

The world's oldest known salt mine.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.