Places StanL Wants to Go

The darkest building on Earth was built for the snow-white scenery of the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Plenty of old carney magic still haunts this photogenic amusement park.

The world's first cruise ship-shaped hotel is perched atop a cliff.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

Asia's largest limestone cave is home to a world of plastic goblins and gold mining history.

A Korean village where times stands still.

This former coal mine has been turned into a sprawling modern art complex.

One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.

This odd museum/art gallery embraces the physiological, zoological, and ethnographic side of sex.

A vibrant street away from the typical tourist track, lined with colorful, mosaic-covered houses.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

Drinkslinger is an unlikely vocation for a Buddhist monk, but at this Tokyo bar the enlightenment is served in a martini glass.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

The only electricity pylon built over two lanes of traffic.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.