Places mooseontheloose Wants to Go

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Abandoned Japanese ghost town gives a glimpse into what our own metropolises may leave behind.

Sacred Buddhist home of some spiritual monkeys.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

The oldest Hindu temple complex in Nepal serves as the seat of Nepal’s national deity, Lord Pashupatinath.

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle stands an ancient pyramid that once marked the reign of a king.

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.

Whitewashed mosque contains the world's largest carpet.

The cluster of igloo-like domes forms the remains of an ancient burial ground.

A mesmerizing wonderland of salt-encrusted tree branches and pencil roots.

The English graveyard of Mineral del Monte, a magical little piece of Cornwall in Mexico.

The striking and little-touristed ruins of an ancient city destroyed and rebuilt by the Aztecs.

An impressive if morbid collection of mummified remains from different eras of the region's history.

This partially reconstructed Aztec pyramid gives a glimpse of what its larger counterparts would have looked like.

The ruins of a former sanctuary for elite Aztec warriors.

Inside a busy metro station, an impressive mural depicts the prehispanic city of Tenochtitlán.

This historic cemetery built for victims of the epidemics that swept Guadalajara is shrouded in macabre tales.