Places RiccardoDP Wants to Go

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

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

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

Italian cave with exceptional acoustics and an unsavory history.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Gigantic mosaic sculptures of the figures on Tarot cards fill this colorful Tuscan garden.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

These tiny statues form a terracotta army from China's Han dynasty.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

A tunnel dug through the side of a mountain by hand provides convenient yet death-defying access to a small village in China.

This Tang Dynasty behemoth is the biggest Buddha in the world.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

For those with no fear of heights: a skywalk 4,700 feet up on a Chinese mountain.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

You can walk up Thailand’s naturally non-slip waterfall.

Gruesome statues of people reborn in Buddhist hell stand among the ruins of an 11th-century sanctuary.

Grotesque statues of figures from Buddhist hell haunt the temple's Sin Park.

The skeletons, demons, and corpses serve as a warning of the terrors of Buddhist Hell.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

During the rainy season, this temple is almost entirely submerged, accessible only by boat.

A modern temple with an ancient philosophy.