Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
The Dome of Light
The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.
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Kaohsiung City, Taiwan
The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.
Paris, France
A modern-day Lascaux cave underneath Paris.
Orem, Utah
An absolutely beautiful 200-foot stained glass installation traces the evolution of knowledge.
Frederiksberg, Denmark
A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.
Metz, France
A neighborhood church's unusual abstract stained glass was the final project of avant-garde artist Jean Cocteau.
London, England
A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.
Abensberg, Germany
A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.
Prague, Czechia
A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.
New York, New York
This wall on a street corner in Lower Manhattan has been a blank canvas for a rotation of renowned artists since the 1980s.
Kumano-chō, Japan
This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.
Argentina
Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.
Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya, Thailand
A colorful kitschy temple and floating market off the beaten path.
ambon Kalai, Thailand
A tall karst islet popularized by 007.
Tambon Wat That, Thailand
Bizarre Hindu and Buddhist sculpture park.
Bang Muang Mai, Thailand
This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.
Khlong Mai, Thailand
An enormous dragon scales the walls of this 17-story temple.
Chiang Rai, Thailand
A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.
Shchyolkovo, Russia
Secret Soviet city once home to Russian cosmonauts and space training facilities.
Medvezhyegorsky District, Russia
Stunning examples of Russia's 18th-century wooden architecture.
East Lyme, Connecticut
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
Hartford, Connecticut
The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.
Milford Sound, New Zealand
Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.
Castle Hill, New Zealand
The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."
Sydney, Australia
A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.