Places vturano Wants to Go

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

Various forms of phallic art decorate this hill in commemoration of legendary local tragedy.

A remnant of Korea's colonial past lies forgotten in a hip neighborhood in Seoul.

One man's lifetime collection of tiny objects of wisdom gathered from around the world, on display for public enjoyment.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

A chilling monument to Korean patriots who resisted the Japanese occupation.

The world's longest bridge fountain has hundreds of nozzles that create a beautiful, illuminated spectacle.

Tracking the 1,500-year history of Korea's star cabbage.

The abandoned hospital whose elaborate ghost stories cover up the dirty truth - an uneventful sanitation issue and other mundane reasons for its demise.

About as hidden as can be, this specialty coffee shop is wedged between multi-story buildings at the end of a dark, skinny alleyway in Seoul.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

This monument is a stark reminder of the horrors of the Zanzibar slave trade.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.

An exquisite and eclectic selection of African masks stands out within a massive woodcarving marketplace.

Freddie Mercury's childhood home is now a monument to the iconic Queen rockstar.

After sunset the heart of Zanzibar's historic Stone Town neighborhood transforms into a culinary playground.

Stunning ruins of what was once the center of one of the greatest empires in East Africa.

These strange piles of magnetized volcanic ash travel across the desert about 50 feet per year.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

An architectural marvel that combines Gothic architecture with Indian elements.

World's most expensive home.

A Zoroastrian funerary tower where excarnation rituals are carried out is threatened by the area's dwindling vulture population.