Places miodek Wants to Go

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

Step into a cartoon at this Seoul café that aims to evoke a two-dimensional scene.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A canvas of crops grow from vibrant red soil in this terraced farmland.

A total of 999 stairs lead visitors through a massive hole in a mountain known as the Gateway to Heaven.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

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

A sculpture that resurrected the only tree standing following the devastating 2011 tsunami.

One of the tallest statues in the world, and the tallest statue of a goddess in Japan.

After a short 5 year run, this former major theme park sits in ruin.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

This active volcano's siren song to suicide jumpers forced authorities to build a fence.

This little replica of Lady Liberty provides a bit of NYC in a Japanese city.

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

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.