This kitschy, kinky homage to Taipei’s old “grandpa shops” is full of eye-candy.

Remarkable medieval wall paintings decorate this 12th-century, dog-friendly church.

Movie buffs will love this Taiwanese director’s ode to film history.

An Antoni Gaudí masterpiece in Astorga.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

A kindergarten shaped like a cat with a tail that's a slide.

This 317-ton walkable art installation is an homage to Korea's "City of Steel."

Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

Send your taste buds to South Asia at a sumptuous Southern dinner party.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

The groundbreaking Japanese shrine maiden who invented the art of kabuki.

Old 'Nutcracker' sculptures from 'Where the Wild Things Are' author found new life as a seasonal attraction.

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

A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.

An open-air sculpture museum in a park in Alcorcón.

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

The 18th-century inspiration behind Harry Potter's Sorting Hat.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

A must for film lovers in Madrid and home to the Spanish Film Library's projection space.