Places szofika Wants to Go

Booksellers and public artworks fill this vibrant promenade along the disused railroad tracks.

Visit the real-life site of the fictional pizzeria in Bong Joon-Ho's film Parasite.

The place nearest Seoul where it’s easy to get a good look at North Korea.

A Japanese cat island also populated by the descendants of a band of banished samurai.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

The longest skywalk in Taiwan.

Paiwanese restaurant run by native indigenous Taiwanese singer songwriter, and home to a DIY arts-and-crafts folk garden.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

A small alleyway lined with locally drawn scenes of nostalgic anime and cartoon characters.

World's largest cave was only discovered in 1991, and now offers tours to the public.

This Vietnamese hell cave lets visitors take a walk through a devilish underworld full of demons.

This sensational silver temple is the product of centuries of metalworking.

All of Thailand's architectural landmarks, plus some made up ones, all viewable via two-seater bicycle.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

This enormous gold Buddha statue was hidden inside a stucco decoy for centuries.

Sidle up for this Chinatown watering hole for Thai moonshine accompanied by traditional live tunes.

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

This dazzling Buddhist temple was constructed from over one million ceramic tiles salvaged from a British shipwreck.

Visit a century-old sweet shop serving gold-standard mango sticky rice.

The pillars inside this small, ornate shrine hold Bangkok's horoscope within them.

A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.

A shrine honoring a legendary ghost bride lies within this vibrant temple.

A forsaken beachfront condo abandoned after the Boxing Day Tsunami.

Tackle southern Thailand’s favorite dish at this hyper-casual Phuket Town restaurant.