Places RiccardoDP Wants to Go

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A white Buddhist temple with a golden restroom.

This Navarrese cave's history of witchcraft and pagan ritual is not just embraced, but recreated each year.

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

A living art gallery painted on a canvas of Monterey pine trees.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

A crazy maze of a hostel, where every trap door and secret entrance brings you to a new wacky, wonderful room.

Think you have a tough job? Try carrying 200 kilos through a cloud of sulfur down the side of a volcano.

Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

Bali's remote "gateway to heaven" is one of the most sacred places on the island.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Two monstrous faces loom over a village in Czechia.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Folklore says this medieval fortress was plopped atop a portal to hell to trap the demons below.