Places SimNShy Wants to Go

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Mozart's skull may be held in this collection, but definitive proof continues to elude scientists.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

An 18-meter-long sarcophagus of a constantly growing dead prophet.

Kuala Lumpur’s historic single-screen cinema, transformed into a labyrinthine bookstore.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Two panes of the massive Cold War artifact are on display at the National University of Singapore.

This synagogue is the only place of worship for New Delhi’s small Jewish community.

An effigy of the deity emerges from a temple's water every 40 years.

Buddhist monk remarkably preserved because he started the mummification process while still living.

The place of worship for Zoroastrians, Mumbai's Parsi fire temples use fire and ash for purification.

Megalithic monuments resembling magic mushrooms.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

Over 3 miles up in the Himalayas this pass is one of the highest drivable roads in the world.

Inside a beautiful Indian temple is a seemingly magical floating pillar that doesn't touch the ground.

Many Hindus make the long pilgrimage to this holy city to have their remains burned on the banks of the Ganges River.

This 16th-century mosque is the hallmark of the African architectural legacy in India.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.

Known as the leaning temple, the sacred structure has somehow developed a severe nine-degree slant.

There are millions of temples in India, but only one prominent temple dedicated to the Hindu creator god.