Places moonlightpearls Wants to Go

Beijing's World Park offers the excitement of international sites without the travel.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

Explore this massive series of 45 caves and over 51,000 sculptures carved from cliffsides in China.

China’s breathtaking futuristic library is lined floor to ceiling with fake books.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

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

Hidden away in a back alley, this Art Nouveau cafe has been in business since 1882.

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

A huge museum of much more than just agriculture displayed in a princess's palace.

A strange aquarium with stuffed fish, and almost no water for them to swim in.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

Egyptian treasure trove of fossils documenting the whale's transition from land mammal to sea creature.

A preserved oasis with traditional Andalusian-style architecture and beautiful views of the Nile.

Known as the Sistine Chapel of Egypt, this tomb houses some of the most well-preserved paintings in Egypt.

Ozymandias’ time-keeping temple.

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

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

An underwater temple submerged for 20 years has resurfaced with an extreme drought.

All of Thailand's architectural landmarks, plus some made up ones, all viewable via two-seater bicycle.

Cities of the world and famous Thai monuments in minature.

On the small Thai island of Ko Mak, there is a forgotten garden of erotic statuary.

A mile-long navigable cave adorned with stalactites and stalagmites reaching up to 65 feet tall.