Places tmcc Wants to Go

This 19th-century shopping arcade has charming, unusual stores like a luthier workshop and even the local Esperanto Association.

A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

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

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

A bright little alley in La Boca is a part of tango history.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

At this beautifully preserved Pre-Hispanic site, you can see ancient petroglyphs with depictions of llamas and alpacas.

A massive display of meteorites all found in the Atacama Desert.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

A small Byzantine church lost in the middle of the mountains of southern Italy.

This church carved into the rocks is full of enchanting stone statues.

A single column facing the sea is all that's left of one of the most important temples of Magna Graecia.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

When you're a great Russian Tsar, even your vomit gets a statue.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

This Bangkok high-rise looks like a rudimentary LEGO elephant.

Bangkok celebrated its shifting monarchy with a militaristic homage to democracy.

A condom-covered Thai restaurant that is more concerned with birth control than food.

Thailand's distressed elephants find peace at this Chiang Mai sanctuary.