Places shatteredpools Wants to Go

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

A smoky doorway in Dakar leads to one of the city’s great communal eating experiences.

This exacting restaurant will charge a fine for every grain of rice you've left behind.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

Self-mutilation in the name of beauty.

Hang out with thousands of butterflies in one of the world's largest such enclosures.

Cartoon clouds and nature-inspired murals have transformed the streets of Kuala Lumpur.

Come for the chanting, stay for the monastical vegan buffet.

Two thousand feline artifacts fill Malaysia's "Cat City."

Extravagant mosque honors modern Islam.

Malaysia's first and only glass temple.

A remote forest of stone pillars along the Lena river.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

Plagued with warts? Leave a frog at this small shrine in the city of Tosa, and you may be cured.

Ward off bad luck and fill your bottle with "the most watery water" at this little roadside shrine in Yonezawa.