Places Umudugudu Wants to Go

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

These lakeside pictographs were some of the first pieces of prehistoric artwork found in Finland.

This abandoned villa of makeshift buildings was once the home of dancer Elis Sinistö.

This restaurant combines two Finnish traditions in one place: warm-weather relaxation and outdoor carpet-cleaning.

In the waters outside Helsinki, a tiny island once used as a military outpost now welcomes visitors.

This building featuring Brutalist architecture has a rich media production history.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

No matter how many times this community-run sauna gets destroyed, it always rises from the ashes.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

A small island dotted with old, historic Finnish buildings.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Architecturally stunning library serves as the hub of Finnish scholarly life and culture.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

A stunning 18th-century site where pilgrims ascend by a series of punishing stairs only to return via funicular.

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

A hidden three-foot-wide house separates these two regal churches.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

A jewel of the Mexico city skyline now slowly crumbles after surviving an earthquake.

This foreboding building was the headquarters of the terrifying Spanish Inquisition in Mexico.

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.