Places ouroborosasunder Wants to Go

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

The residence of a Taiwanese literary scholar sits down an alleyway adorned with depictions of snails.

An art gallery that celebrates Indigenous Maya practices and traditions.

Hidden in the highlands of Guatemala, a small shrine venerates a forbidden folk saint.

This Ottoman-era Greek Orthodox Church was built to honor Agia Pareskevi, a Christian saint.

Order a crunchy sugar-topped treat from one of Hong Kong’s oldest pineapple bun bakers.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

The unusual burial site of a globetrotter, eccentric, adventurer, war hero, landscape designer, dandy, and writer.

Stroll through Welsh history in a village of reconstructed structures.

A freedman baker’s lavish tomb has a relief showing various stages of Roman bread making.

The turquoise-studded skull of a long-dead Aztec man sits within Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology.

A museum showcasing the work of a self-taught painter and sculptor spanning four decades of output in seclusion.

This collection of neon icons is preserving Arizona's history, one sign at a time.

A fantastic castle rumored to be the birthplace of King Arthur.

A stretch of land where the sour-sweet vegetable is cloaked in darkness and grows so fast you can hear it crack, squeak, and pop.

The only known mosaic depicting the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos.

A tiny church on a man-made island in the Adriatic.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

This awkward aquarium sculpture is one of the strangest statues in Chicago.

The first home and studio that belonged to the famous architect.

See the streets of Siem Reap light up with themed paper puppets.

This altarpiece isn't a gilded baroque work taken from a church, but rather a recreation where everything (even the fence and lock) are made of paper and cardboard.