Places riche103 Wants to Go

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

This unusual rock formation looks like an apple that has been neatly sliced in half.

Whimsical sculptures and caves chiseled by nature over the millennia.

This Taiwanese promontory is covered in otherworldly hoodoo formations.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

A secret passageway from World War II is now a quirky pedestrian shortcut.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

This mysterious, medieval cathedral remains unbuilt but fiercely protected.

The remote island home of the overlooked explorer who co-discovered the theory of evolution by natural selection.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

A mysterious medieval monument said to mark the final resting place of Robin Hood’s henchman.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

Hundreds of stones dangle from barren trees in the middle of the desert.

Legend says these stone structures are where the doomed citizens of a vanished village sent themselves to die.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

In Bermuda, this formal naval residence has become a go-to for cliff-jumpers and hikers.

An abandoned railroad tunnel forgotten by time awaits inquisitive hikers.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

A fantastical and futuristic temple of light built from nine monumental glass veils.