Places Saint Roughneck Wants to Go

Perhaps the world's cheapest vending machines.

The tomb of an infamous chimeric monster whose corpse once washed ashore in Osaka.

According to local legend, anyone who falls on these temple steps will turn into a cat.

Dyed by iron oxide over centuries, these sandstone rocks rise thousands of feet into the sky.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

Cavemen, elephants, and eagles greet passengers driving through the town's main intersection.

This nugget of paradise earned its name for obvious reasons.

Buddha shrines hide within dark tunnels at this unique forest temple.

A local Thai artist started building this gallery in 1980.

This sensational silver temple is the product of centuries of metalworking.

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

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.

Visit a century-old sweet shop serving gold-standard mango sticky rice.

A unique tribute to the chocolatey past that helped shape one British city.

These secluded and abandoned anti-aircraft defenses have become one the most scenic viewpoints in Barcelona.

A bookstore dedicated to the intersection of comedy and art.

Visit the only cheesemaker working in Barcelona.

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

This store decorated with Japanese and underground pop culture items has been the centre of Barcelona alternative fashion scenes for more than a decade.

This mansion oasis contains gardens, sculptures, and fountains just off the busy Plaça Kennedy in Sant Gervasi.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

A former steam-powered mill from the 1800s is now an industrial park with a giant steel dragon slide.

A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.