Places ylle Wants to Go

Vintage furniture and art share space with all manner of collectibles at this quirky shop in Bangkok.

From dragonfruit to mangoes to durian this Thailand resort allows guests to stay inside all manner of giant fruit.

A colorful kitschy temple and floating market off the beaten path.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

The site of a Japanese traders’ settlement that once thrived in Ayutthaya, if for less than a century.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

An eclectic Buddhist temple packed with pop-culture icons.

An immersive exhibition that meditates on death and life.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

An American crash site from WWII is marked deep in a Swedish forest.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A Swedish university commemorates the former U.S. President’s bathroom visit with a gold plaque.

The site of Stockholm's last public execution.

There's something in the air as history repeats itself at this museum dedicated to the Swedish pop band.

A golden plaque marks the site of the mysterious unsolved assassination of the former Swedish prime minister.

Sweden's oldest animated sign is still lighting up the skyline today.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking came to life.

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

No one knows who's responsible for decorating this tunnel with stuffed animals, but the people love it enough to protest their removal.

Now a hotel, this former bank was the site of a robbery that spawned a psychological phenomenon.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

Antique cinematography artifacts fill this museum dedicated to the inventors of the moving picture.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

This mysterious sign claims an American astronomer haunts the building—but is it true?