Places paubu Wants to Go

This metro station doubles as an unintentional paleontology museum.

These boulders bear testimony to thousands of years of cultural exchange along this trading route.

This park is the prime habitat for Nepal’s Bengal tigers.

This conservation area filled with colorful birds is the last community forest within the city of Kathmandu.

Named after the Goddess of Harvests, Annapurna is the deadliest member of the Eight-thousanders club.

This elegant neoclassical garden is a peaceful oasis in the middle of the Nepalese capital.

The most visited pilgrimage site in Armenia once held a saint in a pit for 13 years.

This Armenian monastery was carved out of cliffs and named after the spear used to stab Jesus.

A spectacular rainbow of stained glass makes the "Pink Mosque" one of the most beautiful in Iran.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

This sacred, circular cave is lined with pools so clear and still that it's hard to tell where the water begins.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

This colorful overpass is one of Bhutan's longest suspension bridges.

The small cliffside monastery known as the Tiger's Nest is said to be the meditation site of an 8th-century Buddhist master.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.