Places travellingsoup Wants to Go

Home to secret lakes and hidden temples.

Kuala Lumpur’s historic single-screen cinema, transformed into a labyrinthine bookstore.

Come in, light some incense, and ignore the live snakes around you.

This vanilla farm serves its crops at an on-site café.

The largest tea plantation in Southeast Asia supplies gorgeous vistas alongside tea for the surrounding countries.

A delightful architectural wonder awaits on a lake island in Kuala Lumpur’s oldest park.

After being bombed and largely abandoned, this former railway workshop has been transformed into a lively market space.

A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Sip cherry liqueur at a bar dating back to 1840.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

When this former hospital pharmacy closed in 2013 it already looked like a museum, so they turned it into one.

A Spanish artist builds his own castle.

A historic Christian shrine nestled within a spectacular natural cave.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

This bridge was designed to connect a road that never came to fruition.

This incredible narrow-gauge mountain railway was created by a ceramic artist.

Water-powered gadgets whirr to life in this quirky eco park.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

One of the world's oldest universities houses an incredible collection of anatomical models, mummified body parts, and human bones.