Places stienlorent Wants to Go

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.

One of the largest legal spray spots in Hamburg.

Buy your fish and have it cooked to order in this bustling, eight-floor seafood market.

This ratty natural history collection is a charming relic among a city rushing into modernity.

This former textile district now is now a thriving center for contemporary Chinese art.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

A chinese farmer builds robots from scrap.

Genitals, claws, and faces are served at this Beijing eatery.

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

The world's longest outdoor escalator takes visitors to the top of China's largest dam and is also shaped like a dragon.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

One of the oldest temples in Ho Chi Minh City, dedicated to a deified Chinese military leader.

This tiny Vietnamese village is known for eating snakes and serving their still-beating hearts in shots of vodka.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

An extravagant monument to an extravagantly unpopular Emperor.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

This spectacular bridge supported by two gigantic hands looks like something out of a fantasy universe.

Have fun at the world's first Buddhist waterslide park.

Japan and South Korea both lay claim to islands inhabited by one woman.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.