Places remcrae Wants to Go

This ancient market is often referred to as the oldest shopping mall in the world.

A world of craftwork elegantly curated in a historic brick warehouse.

Tables of secondhand books fill the inner courtyard of this 17th-century stock exchange.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

A pocket of Buenos Aires with an unusually high concentration of psychotherapists.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

A prestigious learning institute of old Shanghai.

A labyrinth of clothing, electronics, and other counterfeit items.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

This lake’s emerald green waters are a spectacular sight, but it’s not a great place for a swim.

One of the only places where Earth’s mantle lies above water.

The oldest surviving mosque in the UAE has mysterious origins and unusual architecture.

This remote British Imperial telegraph relay outpost drove men insane.

The colorful soil of Iran’s "Rainbow Island" attracts artists and nature lovers.

France's highest manned weather station is the only one still inhabited by meteorologists.

This French "sea of rocks" is packed with stunning rock formations and its own medieval castle.

This army of concretions is an unexplained geological phenomenon unlike anything else in the world.

Cloistered comestibles are served with style at this French Orthodox monastery.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

The Jewish diaspora shares a menu at this museum café.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.