Places simonele Wants to Go

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

A whimsical shrine with a porcelain Torii gate, split in half by an active train line.

Weave yourself into over a thousand years of history at this textiles museum through demonstrations and a hands-on hataori experience on a traditional loom.

Visit Finnish architect Matti Suuronen's first UFO-shaped home.

This small canyon is home to a treasure trove of geological oddities.

From mid-September to early November, dreamy fields of pink muhly grass spring up all over South Korea.

A sacred place for ascetic training, set in a honeycomb-walled cliffside cave deep in the woods.

This sprawling, Brutalist estate feels like a city within a city.

One of the top 100 sights of feudal Tokyo continues to impress those who visit the lesser temples of Ueno.

Halfway up a volcano at the edge of the world’s largest salt flats is a cave with seven mummies.

A young artist's storefront brings eldritch horrors to small-town America.

The first post office in Toronto still operates today, complete with quill pens and ink for writing letters.

A bizarre, tuberculosis sanatorium-themed café moonlighting as an underground art gallery.

Considered the oldest intact wooden structure in Tokyo Prefecture, this impressive temple was built in 1407.

These floating gardens show what Mexico City used to look during the Aztec Empire.

Make a beeline to this rural outpost for one of Thailand’s rarest desserts.

Try Thailand’s distinctive take on Hainanese chicken rice at the source.

Try Taiwan's iconic Apple Bread—which traditionally contains no apples—at the bakery that invented it.

First Nations’ foodways are front and center at this food truck-turned-brick-and-mortar.

Only a few remaining items alert intrepid explorers that a town once stood in this region.

A busy island at the center of the world that doesn’t actually exist.

Slow-simmered beef soup pairs surprisingly perfectly with an omelet at this Thai-Muslim institution.

This bilingual museum explores the more than 300 years of vaquero history.

"The Dance of Fools" is Japan's largest dance festival.