Places smells Wants to Go

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

This neighborhood thoroughfare is haunted by dozens of homemade monsters.

An unusual pagoda design in in the northwestern part of Hwaeomsa Temple.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

A small section in the Bank of Korea Museum dedicated to the many varieties of the Joseon dynasty’s iconic coinage.

This replica of the Indian spiritual master Meher Baba's tomb stands unfinished in the New Mexico desert.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

This small town Texas cemetery is said to be the burial site of a UFO pilot who crashed in the 1800s.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.

All that remains of this abandoned coal town is a beautiful, haunting cemetery.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

The headless bodies of more than 1,300 guillotined victims of the Reign of Terror are buried here in mass graves.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

One man's attempt to stay one step ahead of the church.