Places Chris Staring Wants to Go

This ancient burial cave along a roadside is also home to several Buddhist sculptures.

A waterfall runs right through the middle of this Taiwanese shrine to the hundreds of workers killed while building a nearby highway.

A half-buried vehicle in Prague's is the latest iteration in a long-running piece by Czech artist David Černý.

A quasi-futuristic roof sits atop a medieval Bohemian monastery damaged during World War II.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

The statue of a cursed knight is said to come to life every 100 years.

Throughout this shopping mall are medieval ruins that were discovered during the mall's construction.

The slender brass strip in Prague's Old Town Square was used to tell time from 1652 to 1918.

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

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

An ancient Chinese temple where even the emperor dressed like a farmer in the name of the harvest.

North Korea's massive art and propaganda factory now has an official gallery space in Beijing.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

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

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Immortal combat in a Moscow museum.

Mysterious craters may have been home to an ancient cult.

A open air theatre built on a cliff by an eccentric British woman.

Once swallowed by flood waters, this village has emerged as an eerie shadow of its former self.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

The largest catacomb system in the world.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.