Places ouroborosasunder Wants to Go

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.

An antiquated aquarium housed in a converted government anti-nuclear bunker.

This collection of lakeside pagodas and temples are flanked by giant lions, tigers, and dragons as well as their welcoming maws.

One man's hand-sculpted collection of colorful masks representing a host of gruesome spirits.

A Buddhist temple covered in intricate designs and carvings made out of seashells and pieces of coral.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

A nostalgic restaurant evokes life in Taiwan from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Eat green onion ice cream and other allium-centric treats at this unusual museum.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

A crumbling ghost town with prime views of the dam that doomed it.

Beneath an ancient wishing tree lies an underground chapel with 12th-century frescoes and catacombs dedicated to a lady saint.

The ancient mosaics here are considered among the finest in the world, and serve as a stunning record of Greco-Roman daily life.

While most shipwrecks are submerged, this ship in Cyprus ran ashore.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

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

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