Places yumpipe Wants to Go

The design of this ornately decorated place of worship closely mirrors a church in Vietnam.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This technicolor classic diner is known for its nine-pound banana splits and retro flair.

A family-run store in an 1892 pharmacy still slings old-fashioned sodas.

Dine on funerary beans alongside off-duty lucha libre wrestlers at this legume-centric spot near Museo Rufino Tamayo.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

An ancient city exhumed from the depths of the ocean.

Former home of a village butcher who became a globally renowned artist.

An unexpected treasure trove of military oddities, Turkish interior design, and North Korean art.

Underneath the Serapeum ruins lies a dark passage with nooks for books, the lesser-known “sister” to the famous ancient library.

The ancient village known as Set Maat, or the 'Place of Truth,' located on this site served as a hub for intellectual and artistic endeavors.

A hyper-remote desert cave dramatized in "The English Patient."

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.

Giant pigeon houses packed into city streets in Egypt.

The medieval center of the Islamic world was also once the seat of Saladin's sultanate.

Source for a sizable portion of Egypt's freshwater supply is more than an optical illusion.

Located near Cairo's El Korba district, the abandoned mansion continues to inspire mystery and rumor throughout the city.

Charnel house at the foot of Mount Sinai.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

The once great capital of Egypt now crumbles forward as evocative ruins.