Places PauI Wants to Go

Spend the night in this former asylum for the incurably insane, which claims to be one of the most haunted places in the United States.

This bizarre residential building is the masterpiece of Von Jour Caux, the “Gaudí of Japan.”

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

Renowned restaurant tucked in a cave once occupied by buccaneers.

Drink and dine in a coral cave that's at least 120,000 years old.

This ancient Roman prison is decorated with an upside-down cross not as blasphemy but as saintly tribute.

On the side of Christchurch Mansion is an enigmatic block of dark limestone that dates back to 14th-century Belgium.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

A mysterious concrete hand reaches out from between the stones of Uniwersytecki bridge.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

In the hometown of the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a memorial dedicated to her legacy.

Outside of one of Britain's most renowned social clubs, a step installed specifically for the Duke.

A medieval setting reimagined into a unique art alley.

Not far from a popular beach, an unfinished, abandoned mansion for Bulgaria's last communist dictator.

A peculiar family mausoleum built by a German nobleman captivated by the occult.

This unique structure allowed boats to bypass underwater mine barriers in the channel to enter the harbor.

An exotic jungle hideaway run entirely by indigenous Kichwa women.

This grisly effigy displays an early Christian martyr who was skinned alive and beheaded.

This public observatory is home to the "celestial cannon," the longest pointable telescope in the world.

The ruins of a world-renowned medieval hospital.

This futuristic building is yet another architectural wonder in Dubai.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.