Places vijayhm Wants to Go

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

This landmark honoring a local beer brand is an iconic part of the Minneapolis skyline.

One of the world's premier laboratories for hydraulic engineering research takes full advantage of the water's power.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

100 year tradition of fist fights, marked by marble footsteps.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Armenian monks at an island monastery in the Venetian Lagoon make a rare rose petal jam.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

This tunnel looks like a sliver of Shanghai that's stuck in the past.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

Walled family complexes in Southern China.

This site was once the religious, cultural, and trade center of Sri Lanka.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

The final resting place of the dictator of Taiwan.

You can still see the remains of a sacred 3,000-year-old cypress.

Taiwan's first stone fortress is also the best preserved Qing Dynasty-era city on the island.

High rises built to house displaced military personnel and their families form a unique cylindrical shape.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

A small museum dedicated to one of the most popular fish in Taiwanese cuisine.

The first Confucian temple in Taiwan, founded by the son of a pirate lord, doubled as the island's first state-sponsored school.

Only through deep darkness and tragedy did this elaborate royal palace become a sacred temple.

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

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.