Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

One of the cave cities of Crimea, built by the Goths in the sixth century.

A castle perched precariously over the Crimean Sea.

A biblically accurate ark located beneath a Hong Kong bridge is fun for the whole Christian family.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

A pair of trees near a Hong Kong shrine are said to grant wishes, but only the ones they hold on to.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

Teeming with illegal goods and services, this towering maze of vice is also a popular tourist accommodation.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

This abandoned Antarctic research station is a Soviet ghost frozen in time.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

The world's seventh-largest coral reef contains an incredible amount of biodiversity.

Fine dining 20 feet below the surface in the Indian Ocean.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

Temple-like building holds power equipment.

Four distinctly unique gardens commemorate the POWs who lost their lives during the Sandakan Death Marches of 1945.